Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 November 2005
105 Mr. Coveney asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether a system of energy efficiency labelling for motor vehicles would be beneficial to Ireland’s climate change strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36595/05]
View answerThe national climate change strategy proposed to implement a system of fuel economy labelling for new cars and the monitoring of carbon dioxide emissions rates for all newly registered cars. Since August 2001, regulations require all new passenger cars for sale to be individually labelled with fuel economy and carbon dioxide emissions information. A progress report on the national climate change strategy, published in 2002, identified annual emission reductions of 380,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2010 from this initiative.
