Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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Tax Plug-in Latvia Czech Republic 268

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

It is also one of a host of actions intended to support the EU’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia. Solaris unveiled its first buses to use hydrogen in 2014.

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Hydrogen Cleaning Clean Latvia 259

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

Low-carbon fuels are the only sustainable solution to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from existing combustion engines around the world. All solutions are needed in the fight against the climate crisis. In addition, there are around 22,000 aircrafts for which there are no cost-effective technical alternatives in sight.

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Latvia Lithuania Estonia Renewable 247

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2012

The higher share of gas led to an improved carbon intensity of fossil fuel consumption in many Member States. Among the greenhouse gases reported to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) accounted for the largest increase in emissions in 2010.

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2010 Emissions Gas 2009 225