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By Paul Brown at Climate News Network
Increasing sales of more fuel-hungry and bigger cars are putting vital climate goals out of reach and causing many more deaths from pollution.
Although the trend to larger vehicles is most marked in the United Kingdom, it is a global problem and one of the leading causes of increased carbon dioxide emissions, more damaging than both aviation and heavy industry. It also adds to poor air quality, which kills up to half a million people a year in Europe, and many more elsewhere.