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Two dozen countries want to set an end date for cars with internal combustion engines at the world climate conference in Glasgow.
To date, the alliance includes 24 countries, six major car manufacturers and some cities and investors, as the British organizers of the climate summit announced on Wednesday.
However, detailed information on the signatories was not yet available.
The signatories also include the Mercedes-Benz groups, the Swedish manufacturer Volvo, the Chinese BYD and Jaguar Land Rover, a unit of the Indian Tata Motors and the US car manufacturers Ford and General Motors.
The participating governments want to »work towards ensuring that all sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles are emission-free by 2040 worldwide and in leading markets by 2035 at the latest«.
The car companies should therefore strive to sell only emission-free cars and vans in leading markets by 2035 at the latest.
Will Germany participate?
It was still unclear in the evening whether the Federal Republic of Germany would also sign the declaration.
The Ministry of the Environment said that the federal government has not yet made a final decision.
The negotiators at the climate conference held discussions until late Tuesday evening.
The outgoing Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) had previously publicly rejected the initiative.
Scheuer told journalists: »The fossil combustion engine will expire in 2035.
The combustion technology is still needed.
We want to make them climate-neutral with synthetic fuels and preserve the advantages of the technology. "
However, the planned declaration does not take into account propulsion with synthetic fuels.
That is why his ministry is decidedly against it.
The Ministry of Transport said that this was also the line of the federal government.
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