Only some years in the past, phrases like “carbon neutrality,” “greenhouse gasoline” and “carbon footprint” had been relegated to the world of scientists, environmentalists and green-leaning retailers.

Now they’re on the lips of nearly each firm within the international auto business.

In boardrooms and shareholder shows, in auto vegetation and element manufacturing settings from Tokyo to Paris, automotive executives and manufacturing unit leaders are pursuing a shared aim: lowering their corporations’ carbon footprints within the pursuit of chopping their particular person CO2 emissions.

Automotive Information seems at how this worldwide business phenomenon has shortly taken form and the place it would lead automaking within the decade forward.

–Lindsay Chappell