Automakers have been warned that they are not doing enough to meet the European Union's targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

Car manufacturers will have to cut emissions by 17 per cent in order to meet the EU standards set for 2012, a new report has revealed.

T&E said that French and Italian makers were the most developed while BMW was following closely.

The report from T&E said that Peugeot-Citroen, Renault and Fiat were best placed to meet the requirement.

Nissan, Mazda and Suzuki were among the worst performing brands, with the latter needing to cut emissions by 25 per cent by 2012 to meet the requirements.

Jos Dings, director of T&E, said that manufacturers were responding to the threat of legislation but warned that any moves to weaken this could result in a lack of progress.

Some automakers want the legislation to be softened because they say it will put manufacturing jobs at risk.



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Car makers lag EU's CO2 vision, Japan worst:study, 25/08/08
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSLP59868520080825?sp=true