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Volkswagen and Greenpeace Make Truce over CO2 Reduction Targets

2013-04-16 04:33:06| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News

SITUATION: If youre a global automaker like Volkswagen and theres an environmental activist group that goes after you, youd prefer it not to be Greenpeace Its one thing to get an angry letter or see a critical media announcement about your failure to reduce carbon emissions With Greenpeace, you never know what theyre going to do just ask fishing boat owners in Japan or Korea Or Shell, which last year saw shutdown at 74 of its petrol stations in the UK by Greenpeace activists dressed up as emergency workers closing off the facilities SIGNIFICANCE: Volkswagen has come to terms with its own CO2 reduction targets for its fleet in alignment with Greenpeace and the European Union The automaker has been tweaked by Greenpeace, through the activist groups videos lampooning Volkswagens Star Wars themed popular commercial But both sides have made nice with chief executives meeting recently and wrapping up about two years of conversations some of them very heated Read all about Volkswagens thinking on bypassing Toyota and becoming the greenest global automakerThe Article Volkswagen and Greenpeace Make Truce over CO2 Reduction Targets appeared first on Automotive Digest.

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