IRU takes stock of today’s vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) on CO2 emission standards for new heavy-duty vehicles. It is a mixed bag for the commercial road transport sector. The European Parliament’s Environmental Committee has approved the provisional agreement on CO2 standards for new heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) reached by the Council, European Commission and European Parliament last month. As IRU noted last month, the deal maintains the overly idealistic CO2 emission reduction targets proposed by the Commission for trucks and coaches: a 45% reduction target for manufacturers by 2030, escalating to 65% as of 2035, before jumping to 90% starting 2040. (....)