🌟Good outcome for Australian consumers who will have more green cars to choose from. This will help them to pay less for fuel and reduce their transport costs. 🚗The auto industry would also be happy seeing the government making big concessions and watering down the much awaited and urgent fuel efficiency standard. 🌍But a sad outcome for the environment and for our collective efforts as a nation to reduce transport emissions to meet the targets for 2030 and 2050. 🔗This looks like a compromise to appease the car lobby who have succeeded in their efforts to relax the standards, and increase the allowed emissions limits for some vehicle categories. 🔍It is a move in the wrong direction to shift some of the high polluting 4WDs into the Light Commercial Vehicle category, to give them lower emissions targets. This will only make things worse because Australian consumers are buying larger, heavier and more polluting vehicles, and this will only allow the car industry to sell more of these vehicles to the public. 🌐On emissions reductions, the initial NVES was estimated to reduce CO2 emissions by 369 million tonnes by 2050, while the watered-down standard will only cut 321 million tonnes by 2050, according to government modelling (which we would like to see!). 🌟In 2023, emissions from transport in Australia were around 98 million-tonnes. Reducing transport emissions by 321 million tonnes over a 25-year period between 2025-2050 will leave a massive deficit of transport emissions that will need to be reduced from other sources if we are serious about meeting the 2030 and 2050 emissions reductions targets. #Transport #Emissions #Australia #NVES