Lack of electric car and speed limit proposals in Carbon Plan suggest 'entrenched opposition' from transport officials
Greenpeace has strongly criticised a new government plan to cut carbon emissions, arguing that it neglects the field of green transport.
Chris Huhne, the energy and climate secretary, said recently that "green" organisations such as Greenpeace would be asked to play a formal monitoring role to check that government was meeting its commitments.
In a first intervention, Greenpeace says the new plan contains no mention of the target recommended by the government's independent advisers, the Committee on Climate Change, for electric vehicles. The committee wanted a framework that would see 60% of vehicles powered by electricity by 2030 ? about 11 million electric cars and 1.5 million vans.
Green organisations are also disappointed that it contains nothing about enforcing speed limits as a means of reducing fuel use. Ruth Davis, chief policy adviser at Greenpeace, said: "It's clear Chris Huhne is losing patience with other parts of Whitehall which aren't taking the green agenda seriously at all. The Carbon Plan is painfully threadbare in places ? signs that he faces entrenched resistance from officials in the treasury, transport and business departments. Transport officials seem to have abandoned UK plans to champion greener cars in Europe."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/13/greenpeace-attacks-government-carbon-plan
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