flow speeds up; poor countries now lead, The accelerating rise in carbon dioxide emissions puts the world on a fast-track to warming, September 26 * European parliament votes to crack down on gas guzzlers, September 25 The European Commission last year put forward a proposal to cut emissions from passenger vehicles to 130g CO2 /km by 2012. The current EU average is 158g CO2 /km. The environment committee effectively backed up that proposal in a vote today, and also approved a non-binding target of "no more than" 95g CO2