Implications from the Government's Net Zero Strategy for Transport

22nd Oct 2021

This week the government published their Net Zero Strategy, ‘Build Back Greener’. From a transport perspective this builds on the Department for Transport’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan launched this July. Listen to CIHT podcast featuring an interview with Andrew Crudgington, CIHT’s Climate Change Associate.

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Image of Andrew Crudgington

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2050 may be the end date for creating a Net Zero economy but on the government’s own analysis (as set out in the Committee for Climate Change’s 6th Carbon Budget), nearly half of the reduction in annual emissions has to happen by 2030. 

Fundamentally, if we are serious, the nation needs large scale, systematic change - which inevitably is disruptive and hard – though can also generate the will to tackle problems stashed away in the too difficult draw for many years.

 

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