[sustran] Re: For more on WBCSD report

[arndt at wbcsd.org]

Hi Eric,

here are two more articles that may be of interest:

Subsidies urged for environmentally friendly cars 
Financial Times, 6 July 2004 - Environmentally friendly cars will only be 
a success if governments reform tax and subsidy regimes to encourage 
consumers to buy them, a report backed by leading motor manufacturers 
warned yesterday.
http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=6170


World Business Council Sees Cars As A Global Problem 
IPS, 5 July 2004 - Global cooperation is needed to limit the impact of 
motor vehicles, according to a new report released Monday.
http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=6206


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        Subject:        [sustran] For more on WBCSD report


If you go to the New Mobility Agenda at http://newmobility.org and click NewMob News, you can scroll through there and see a number of 
recent/current commentaries and views on this.
 
Some examples (most of which just rehash the media releases, but later we 
should start to see some real action):
http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&DocId=NjA5Nw (The formal release)
http://www.socialfunds.com/news/release.cgi/2860.html
http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe?204&OIDN=1507979&-tt=tp
http://www.greenconsumerguide.com/index.php?news=2015
http://www.autoindustry.co.uk/news/industry_news/news-55dojo070d
 
If nothing else, this serves us as a reminder of how good they are at 
getting their word out.  And us?