Indeed, support for innovation and research towards very low or even zero emission ships will continue to be a major part of the Community's response to the strategically important shipbuilding sector.

There's a thing call convergence and contraction or contraction and convergence, which is a framework for moving the world toward zero emissions, and that framework is where you converge and contract to eventual zero per capita emissions.

[92] E.g. amongst the expressions commonly used are: ‘eco-friendly, biodegradable, carbon neutral, green, sustainable, natural, energy efficient, non-toxic, low carbon, pollutant-free, clean, zero emissions, ethical and fair’.

Why would anybody right now move towards a zero-emission home or towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

The Court ruled that the contracting authority must award a contract to the tenderer whose tender is the most economically advantageous, but that it may nevertheless take environmental criteria (in the Finnish buses case, exhaust emissions and noise levels) into account when deciding which bids to take into consideration (i.e. the awardcriteria), provided that those criteria are expressly mentioned in the contract documents or the tender notice, are connected with the subject-matter of the contract, do not give the contracting authority an unrestricted freedom of choice, and comply with all the fundamental principles of Community law, in ...[+++] particular the principle of non-discrimination.

The most recent California emission standards for vehicles are available in the " California Exhaust Emission Standards and Test Procedures for 2003 and Subsequent Model Zero-Emission Vehicles, and 2001 and Subsequent Model Hybrid Electric Vehicles, in the Passenger Car, Light-Duty Truck and Medium-duty Vehicle Classes" .