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ITF study finds limited environmental and safety impacts of car fleet renewal schemes in US, France and Germany

Green Car Congress

Car fleet renewal schemes introduced in the US, France and Germany to stimulate consumer spending on cars in the wake of the 2008. While scrappage schemes have the potential to deliver on objectives such as reducing pollutant emissions, these have not done so as well. to 2025 for the US, Germany and France respectively).

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More international criticism for scrappage schemes

Green Cars News

Yesterday we told you how the scrappage scheme proposals in the USA are coming under fire and today it is the turn of Spain’s scheme to face criticism. The Ecologistas en Accion , one of the country’s most important green groups, is claiming that the scrappage scheme is bad business.

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Resounding success or a piece of scrap? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Since the introduction of Britain’s vehicle scrappage scheme, everything appears rosy for the country’s automotive industry once more. Environmentalists have dubbed the vehicle scrappage scheme “a bailout masquerading as a green initiative” and have slammed the Government for failing to tie the initiative to green cars. Money talks.

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Is a green tax blitz justified? The Green Piece

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So would these tax hikes linked to the amount we pollute be justified? The likes of Germany and Denmark are already reaping the rewards of having altered their tax systems to encourage green innovation. We take a look…. Is a green tax blitz justified? Put forward the idea of raised taxation and most people will complain.

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