Statement by Vivianne Heijnen, Minister for the Environment, High-Level Event on Used Cars and Fuel Quality: ‘Avoiding a Green Divide’

‘We need to speed things up. Emissions from transport are still clearly out of step with the Paris goals. As we accelerate transport decarbonisation, however, we must avoid a green divide.’ This said Vivianne Heijnen, Dutch Minister for the Environment at a High-Level Event on Used Cars and Fuel Quality: ‘Avoiding a Green Divide’ at the COP27 in Egypt. In her statement the minister spoke about the MoU the UK and the Netherlands launched during the COP26 in Glasgow. ‘Last year during COP26, the UK and the Netherlands launched a declaration and a Global Memorandum of Understanding on this subject. Since then a growing number of parties have joined this MoU. I call on emerging markets to join us. Only by working together can we make our ambitions reality. And lower the threshold for the transition to climate-neutral transport.’