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Norway’s Path to Sustainable Transport

Posted on October 30, 2014 by nradmin
Thanks to the substantial purchase tax levied on new passenger cars, the Norwegian government has a quite powerful climate policy instrument at its hand. Continued application of this instrument may halve the greenhouse gas emissions from Norwegian cars within two or three decades. On account...

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Reforms in Vehicle Registration Tax Can Reduce CO2-emissions

Posted on April 7, 2014 by nradmin
The Norwegian Parliaments target to reduce new passenger vehicles average CO2-emission to 85 g/km (type-approval value) in 2020, can be achieved by reforms in the vehicle registration tax. In three out of four scenarios, described in this report from Institute of Transport Economics, the target...

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