What will it take to make this happen – is it a job for politicians?

What we want to achieve is actually quite ambitious – we want to see that ALL vehicles in the world - from New York to Timbuktu - will have, on average, a better fuel economy than the most efficient petrol vehicle commercially available today. And to achieve this, we have only about a 5-10 years timeframe to agree on measures and start implementing them. As some parts of the world will inevitably lag behind, we estimate that some other parts need to make up and actually go significantly beyond a doubling of fuel economy - altogether a huge challenge for the coming decade.

It will need a comprehensive approach with involvement and commitment from all governments, relevant industries, consumers, civil society and international organizations. All the stakeholders will need to be involved to be able to achieve substantial progress. We will need vehicle manufacturers to support specific long-range targets and help identify how to get there. We will need governments to commit themselves to the GFEI targets and to developing measures that can meet them. However, there will be a huge anmount of work to be done to achieve this –from setting baselines, generating information on improvement potentials and costs for specific countries and regions, understanding and developing optimal policy approaches, creating awareness, and ultimately sitting down and developing policies to implement these targets.