Poor countries in Africa and Asia jeopardized plans of developed countries to combat climate change. This was stated by the head of the transport movement of the United Nations Program (UN) on the environment of UNEP Rob de Jong, writes Bloomberg.
Salvation from the global catastrophe depends on poor countries, because they will not be able to afford the current electric vehicles due to the low income level. “If we bring electric cars only in the United States, Finland and the Netherlands, we will not reach the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. We need cars with low and zero emissions for low and middle-income countries,” De Jong said. He reproached world automakers in the fact that they create their products in order to attract wealthy buyers in the West, ignoring the needs of low income states.
From 1751 to 2017, Africa and South America accounted for only three percent of the global emissions of greenhouse gases. In 2019, Africa threw a 1.43 billion tons of carbon dioxide, South America – 1.1 billion tons, while European Union countries (EU) – 2.92 billion tons. The proportion of harmful emissions of poor countries will soon increase due to population growth. For example, in Kenya, carbon dioxide emissions increased twice since 2005, and most of them accounted for transport. The Kenyan Capital Nairobi fleet doubles every eight years, and the most popular view of the Matatat minibuses remain the most popular view of public transport. Poor countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America can with decades to use cars, buses and trucks on a fuel and fuel. Without reoriented large automakers to the market of poor countries, the global goal to reduce harmful emissions will be difficult to achieve.
In mid-July, the European Commission adopted a plan for climate protection and ecology, providing, in particular, a decrease in harmful emissions by 55 percent by 2030 compared with the level of 1990, a complete transition to electric cars by 2035 and the introduction of taxes on imported goods from countries with low environmental standards. In the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia, they stated that in the case of approval of the document, the EU countries would hit the Russian supplies to Europe, steel, aluminum, pipes, electricity and cement by 7.6 billion dollars.