In the central corridor of the Cop26 venue in Glasgow, UK, there is a huge electric racing car, underneath a sign which says: “Transport is responsible for 29% of global emissions.”<\/b><\/p>\n
Electrifying the car industry took centre stage on “transport day” of the climate summit, in line with UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s slogan for the summit of “coal, cars, cash and trees”. There were also headline events on decarbonising shipping and aviation.<\/span><\/p>\n But an announcement on phasing out the internal combustion engine on Wednesday underwhelmed – leading many delegates to question why bikes, buses, trains and walking had not been given higher billing.<\/span><\/p>\n While a group of governments and companies signed up<\/a> to eliminate new car emissions by 2040, the world’s top two automakers and major markets Germany, China and the US were not among them<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n