Transport is Australia's second biggest source of climate pollution, and most of it’s coming from the exhausts of our cars, utes and trucks.
But we can put our vehicle emissions in reverse! Strong fuel efficiency standards now would make cleaner vehicles more available and affordable to more people in Australia and hit the accelerator on taking CO2 off our roads.
Right now the Australian government is asking us in the community for our input on these standards. It's critical that we lend our voices now to make the standards strong enough to clean up our dangerous vehicle pollution.
Make a comment now for strong fuel efficiency standards to be included in an ACF community submission to the Australian government before the Friday 31 May deadline.
What to include in your comment
In your submission, you can mention that you want the standards to:
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Take effect as soon as possible: Have the standards come into effect as soon as possible, which will be mid-2024, so that we reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now.
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Be tough on pollution: Require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035, which is in line with limiting global heating to a 1.5-degree rise.
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Insure affordability: Ensure that by 2035 all new cars sold in Australia have zero emissions, creating a second-hand market for low-emissions vehicles sooner.
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Be mandatory and rigorous: Legislate the standards, make them mandatory for all manufacturers, and don’t allow accounting tricks like super credits, offsets etc. that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.
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Latest Supporters
How is it possible that Australia is on par with Russia in not having fuel efficiency standards to limit the carbon dioxide from new vehicles?
Please deliver strong legislation on fuel efficiency standards. Require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035, which is in line with limiting global heating to a 1.5-degree rise.
Ensure that by 2035 all new cars sold in Australia have zero emissions, creating a second-hand market for low-emissions vehicles sooner.
Legislate the standards, make them mandatory for all manufacturers, and don’t allow accounting tricks like super credits, offsets etc. that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.
Unbelievable that such a small population has been unable to change pollution from vehicles.Governments need to act now to reduce all impacts on our environment and not just make soothing noise 🤷🏾♀️🙀😢
Far higher taxes need to be applied to monster US built utes now growing significantly in sales.
That with higher emission standards will drive emissions down.
We need strong fuel efficiency standards in Australia. BY 2035 all new cars sold in Australia should have zero emissions and instead of a luxury car tax cant, we have taxes or fees for polluting cars?
We need better fuel efficiency standards, Australia has become a dirty car dumping ground
I strongly endorse the move for immediate introduction of fuel efficiency standards at least to the hight level available in other countries, and preferably world leading, because Australia is a world laggard on every important climate change initiative, and this is unconscionable for a so-called advanced country. We are actually a world poisoning backwater, and this should have priority over all so- called defensive military strategies, which are nothing more than further pollution initiatives.
Get us out of the swamp of climate change denial and fifth rate policy development.
As an asthmatic, I literally feel the effects of poulltion, we need less polluting vehicles on the road, in the time that petrol engines are still used we need them to be as efficient as possible for the bronchial health of everyone.
Please deliver strong fuel efficiency standards so that we clean up pollution from Australia’s roads. I encourage the Australian government to ensure strong standards that: require all new cars to have zero emissions as soon as possible and no later than 2035; help create a second-hand market for low-emissions vehicles so everyone can afford them; and are legislated, so the standards are mandatory for all manufacturers.
Please have the standards come into effect as soon as possible, which will be mid-2024, so that we reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now.
Be tough on pollution: Require all new cars sold in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035, which is in line with limiting global heating to a 1.5-degree rise. Also, even more important, get the diesel trucks and buses converted to electric. Our health is more important than burning diesel.
Transport pollution is a huge source of climate pollution that we can do something about! We need strong, mandatory, legislated fuel efficiency standards to make cleaner cars cheaper and more available. so many people want cleaner cars but they can’t afford or find one. making this possible as soon as possible through better standards is a win on every front!
Please ensure that new standards which are truly tough on pollution (e.g. require ALL new cars in Australia to have zero emissions from 2035) to come into effect as soon as possible. Ideally we reduce transport emissions from light vehicles now. Legislate the standards, make them mandatory for all manufacturers, and don’t allow accounting tricks like super credits, offsets etc. that stop the genuine reduction of CO2 emissions.