Climate Committee’s blueprint for a green transport system

It’s time to replace talk of decarbonising transport with sustained action, says the Climate Change Committee in its advice on the sixth carbon budget

Rapid decarbonisation of transport will have to take place in the next ten years if the Government adopts the recommendations of its Climate Change Committee for the sixth carbon budget. The CCC advises that UK greenhouse gas emissions should be 965MtCO2e in the five-year period 2033-2037, with emissions down 78 per cent by 2035 relative to 1990. 

“Meeting the budget requires average annual reductions in UK emissions of 21MtCO2e, similar to those achieved since 2012...

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