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Wed 12 Dec 2009Spotlight on CO2 emissions at climate conference
Green carmakers came to the Copenhagen summit to show that their eco cars are ready for action, writes BEN OLIVER
THE WORLD leaders, delegates and protestors crowding Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference might be surprised to see billboards around the city announcing four major carmakers as event sponsors. With road transport accounting for 10 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions – a figure expected to rise to a quarter by 2050 – you might have thought car companies would be about as popular here as Japanese whalers at a marine biologist’s meeting.
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