Traduction de «Transportation Fuels and the Environmental Challenge » (Anglais → Français) :

contribution to the objectives of low greenhouse gas emissions, low-carbon and clean transport, fuel security, reduction of external costs and environmental protection;

Deliver sustainable alternative fuels to the European transport fuel mix, in line with the alternative fuels strategy[16] for the long-term substitution of oil as energy source for all modes of transport, .This requires targeted development and cost reduction of the fuels (in particular advanced biofuels, bio-methane and hydrogen) and transport application technologies.

Reaffirms that tackling climate change and other future global energy and environmental challenges implies developing and promoting clean technologies and green products; considers, therefore, that there is an urgent need to integrate environmental aspects into all relevant products and services, and that the European standardisation system needs to develop an improved system to ensure that such aspects are properly addressed when standards are developed; stresses the need to promote the active involvement in standardisation committees – at national and European level – of environmental organisations and public authorities responsible ...[+++]for environmental protection; stresses that the need to bring European innovation efforts to bear on global strategies to combat climate change and respond to the challenges of energy, society and the environment must also be reflected in the establishment of new guidelines for standardisation models;

Furthermore, today Europe faces three challenges, the financial, the energy and the environmental challenge, which inevitably limit our choices. Oil is an outdated source.

7. Is further concerned that increased global demand for transport fuels could lead to the exploitation of unconventional oil sources such as tar sands or coal-to-liquid fuels with substantial negative environmental impacts; welcomes in this context the proposal for revision of the Fuel Quality Directive to take into account life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from road transport fuels; b ...[+++]elieves that the benefits of strict EU environmental regulation in the automotive sector would spread well beyond the EU market;

[13] For example in the transport sector, measures to encourage modal shift from road and air transport to the more environmentally friendly modes of rail and waterway transport, the biofuels directive with a target of 5.75% market share of motor fuels by 2010, the proposal for a modification of the Eurovignette directive, and fuel taxation, with lower minimum tax rates for fuels with lower CO2 emissions.