“Incentives are important to reduce costs and get more people in these cars. We need to leave no one behind, ”said Ford Global Director Cynthia Williams. “It is important to send a clear signal from governments that electric cars are coming now,” adds Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson.
The largest car companies Volkswagen, Toyota, Renault Nissan and Huyndai refused to sign. On the grounds that China, the United States or Germany have not done so with their giant market.
As a host country, Britain itself has much higher ambitions than what the COP26 declaration says or what the European Union is planning. In nine years, the British will not buy a new car with an internal combustion engine.
Gasoline and diesel cars from used cars will probably be subject to a higher tax. The British government plans to ban new trucks from 2040.
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Cautious Johnson, doubting Guterres
After a wave of criticism that he had flown from Glasgow to London by jet, Prime Minister Johnson returned to the conference by train. “In Glasgow, the world is closer than ever to signaling the beginning of the end of man-made climate change,” Johnson said. After the first days of the conference, he himself warned against excessive expectations.
The day before the end of the summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres also expressed doubts about the possibility of reaching an agreement to limit global warming. “The worst thing would be to reach an agreement at all costs with a minimum common denominator that does not respond to the huge challenges we face,” Guterres said. According to him, the goal is to limit warming from pre-industrial times to 1.5 degrees Celsius “still within reach, but hanging in the balance”, as the temperature increase since the advent of the industrial revolution has already reached 1.1 degrees.
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