Motor Vehicles and the Environment: Reply to UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Questionnaire

摘要

Motor vehicles and the automotive industry will be the subject of a Workshop on the Environment to be held in October 1976. One result of the 1972 UN Environment Conference held in Stockholm was the establishment of a UN Environment Secretariat in Nairobi. The secretariat-United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)- has sponsored and will sponsor, a number of workshops with participation by leading executives from various industries of particular sensitivity from the environmental point of view. Up to now, workshops have been held with the pulp and paper as well as the aluminum industries. Invitations to participate in this motor vehicle seminar have been extended to the governments of countries with vehicle manufacturing industries, to industrial organizations, and to the managing directors of vehicle manufacturers. The invitations distributed by UNEP were accompanied by an introductory report, Motor Vehicles and The Environment, and a very comprehensive questionnaire dealing with the nuisances of motoring, environmental and working conditions within the motor industry, motoring and raw material resources, and urban traffic. It is of great importance that a comprehensive and long range overview be mounted of the problems concerning environment, safety, energy and resources relating to the motor vehicle and the motor industry. Therefore, UNEP's initiative is welcome. The viewpoints and the positions recorded are based on the knowledge, in some parts incomplete, that we have today. It should therefore not be regarded as the fixed and final opinions of the Swedish automobile industry.