How to cut car use to meet climate change targets

A new report by consultant Keith Buchan, A low carbon transport policy for the UK, outlines a range of measures that, he says, will enable the Government to significantly reduce the nation’s emissions of greenhouse gases.

The Climate Change Bill currently passing through Parliament sets, for the first time, targets to reduce the UK’s emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that are legally binding – cuts of at least 27% (compared with the 1990 levels) are required by 2020 and by 2050 the reduction mandated is 80%. Keith Buchan’s work is based on the assumption that transport should shoulder ‘its share’ of this burden, although some commentators have suggested that the transport sector...

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