GFEI report: Global fuel efficiency progress below target
Thu 10 December 2015
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The latest Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) report shows that although average fuel economy is improving around the world, it is not at a pace necessary to meet 2050’s global targets.
GFEI has pledged “100 for 50by50″ in its campaign to promote the global target of reducing average fuel consumption in 100 countries by 50 percent by the year 2050 (using a 2005 baseline). The group’s recent analysis, however, shows that advances are not being made fast enough to meet this goal.
The new report - Fuel Economy State of the World -Time for Global Action - shows that while fuel economy is improving in OECD countries, progress is still below the rate needed to hit global targets by 2030.
Between 2005 and 2013, the global average fuel economy of new cars improved by two percent per year globally and only 2.6% in OECD countries. Developing nations, where vehicles markets are growing significantly, are failing to make inroads in fuel economy, and are way off the GFEI target. However, in OECD domains where fuel economy policies are in place new vehicle fuel economy improved 20% over eight years indicating policy intervention can accelerate progress.
Speaking at the COP21 Paris climate change conference GFEI executive secretary Sheila Watson said: “We need to see vastly improved progress on vehicle fuel economy worldwide if we are to get anywhere near reaching both the two-degree global climate targets, and the new Sustainable Development Goal objective of doubling improvement in energy efficiency.
"Halving fuel consumption in passenger light duty vehicles by 2030 is entirely possible using widely available technologies.”
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