Sentences with phrase «road transport emissions»

Dense urbanization, with around 75 % living in urban areas in Europe, inherently leads to acute awareness of space limitations, road congestion and eco-degradation due to increased road transport emissions.

Although buses only account for about 4 % of UK road transport emissions and are generally seen as part of the solution to the climate crisis, there is still potential for environmental improvements.

Road transport emissions, which account for about a fifth of total EU greenhouse gas emissions, increased for the second year in a row, by 1.6 %.

Road transport emissions are almost the same today, as they were in 1990.

Cans offer the lowest carbon emissions for transporting beverages - Slim cans have half the CO2 road transport emissions of 75 cl wine bottles.

Not exact matches

In a statement, transport minister Paul Maynard said it could help make vehicles more energy - efficient and save costs: «Advances such as lorry platooning could benefit businesses through cheaper fuel bills and other road users thanks to lower emissions and less congestion.

For its supply chain, Bel optimizes the steps for transporting its raw materials and finished goods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to curb other nuisances like road traffic and noise.

The party also advocates the substitution of council tax by a land - value tax; extra funding for the NHS and public transport; the scrapping of road - building schemes; massive investment in renewable energy; a radical reduction in carbon dioxide emissions; and opposition to GM crop initiatives and fracking.

International Road Transport Union president Christian Labrot added: «Autonomous trucks will bring many benefits to society, from cost savings and lower emissions to safer roads, and will also help the haulage sector deal with the current shortage of drivers in many parts of the world.

The budget carrier pointed out the airline industry accounts for just 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while road transport accounts for 18 per cent and power generation for over 25 per cent of carbon emissions.

Currently transport is responsible for 27 per cent of the UK's CO2 emissions, with road transport accounting for 95 per cent of those emissions.

The transportation sector makes up approximately 23 percent of all global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions, of which road transport is the largest and fastest - growing portion.

But to cut transport emissions, we must curb road freight too

For example, because rickshaws have less mass and smaller engines, their CO2 emissions are about one third those of private cars, the latter of which consequently contribute as much as 90 percent of India's total urban road passenger transport emissions.

Dr Degirmenci said the results of the study were relevant to Australia because the transport sector accounted for 16 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions and 85 per cent of these were generated by road transport.

Then in 2004 he decided to invest part of his new - found fortune in tackling what he considers to be one of the most important challenges of our age: cutting CO2 emissions from road transport.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

The chief executive of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, and the chief executive of FCA, Sergio Marchionne, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint development of research projects and technological applications aimed at reducing CO2 emissions from road transport vehicles.

A new study by consultancy Roland Berger defines an integrated roadmap for European road transport decarbonization to 2030 and beyond; the current regulatory framework for vehicle emissions, carbon intensity of fuels and use of renewable fuels covers only up to 2020/2021.

This article aims to show that behavioral multi-agent models are a suitable approach for assessing the impact of policy instruments to reduce CO2 emissions in road transport by introducing a multi agent model for the German road transport sector.

This investment is not just about improving the way people move from point A to point B; it's also about providing access and mobility for the poor and improving road safety, not to mention reducing transport - related greenhouse gas emissions.

But don't forget, road transport is responsible for about a fifth of CO2 emissions, it is a major part of the discussion.

But an analyst recently argued in Issues that simply getting more EVs on the road will not be enough to offset the climate - changing effects of carbon emissions from the transport sector.

This study looks at the impact of low - carbon transformations in power and road transport, sectors which together account for just 50 % of global fossil fuel demand and CO2 emissions approximately.

All key sectors — energy generation, road transport, buildings, industry, forestry and land use, and commercial agriculture — have to begin major efforts to cut emissions by, latest, 2020.

After reviewing ECCC's proposed approach, Pollution Probe compiled a series of comments in support of increasingly stringent emission regulations that would be feasible for Canada's on - road freight transport sector to comply with from an economic perspective.

Experts from industry, academia, government and not - for - profit research organizations engaged in a closed - door dialogue over the course of one day to discuss emerging options to reduce fuel consumption and emissions from the on - road freight transport sector.

The reduction of pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions is far removed from the progress made in road transport, particularly in the category of older, small to medium - size vessels which make up a large proportion of intra-European waterborne transport, including inland navigation.

Some industries are already able to reduce their emissions to near - zero, like power generation, road transport, rail.

The International Road transport Union (IRU), representing the commercial road users of the world, e.g. trucking companies, published a report called «the Commercial Vehicle of the Future» which listed road electrification as the most significant lever to reach the 2050 emission reduction goals and stated that 40 - 45 % of long haul road freight needed to run on renewable electricity by that yRoad transport Union (IRU), representing the commercial road users of the world, e.g. trucking companies, published a report called «the Commercial Vehicle of the Future» which listed road electrification as the most significant lever to reach the 2050 emission reduction goals and stated that 40 - 45 % of long haul road freight needed to run on renewable electricity by that yroad users of the world, e.g. trucking companies, published a report called «the Commercial Vehicle of the Future» which listed road electrification as the most significant lever to reach the 2050 emission reduction goals and stated that 40 - 45 % of long haul road freight needed to run on renewable electricity by that yroad electrification as the most significant lever to reach the 2050 emission reduction goals and stated that 40 - 45 % of long haul road freight needed to run on renewable electricity by that yroad freight needed to run on renewable electricity by that year.

REFERENCE: F. Creutzig, Flachsland, C., McGlynn, E., Minx, J., Brunner, S., Edenhofer, O. (2010) CITIES: Car industry, road transport and an international emission trading scheme - policy options.

; I recycle my beer cans; I forego my crispy, oven - baked potato, and settle for a soggy microwaved one; and I walk or cycle everywhere («transport makes up 25 percent of the UK's emissions of greenhouse gases... And you can get road rage stuck in all that traffic»).

Improving the efficiency of road - freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency's latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment.

Electric trains are covered by the EU's carbon market, and road transport must cut its emissions under a law known as the Effort Sharing Regulation that regulates sectors which are not part of the emissions trading scheme.

Stockholm's taken the goal of becoming CO2 - neutral by 2050, and introduced a road congestion tax and tax breaks for eco-friendlier cars to help reduce transport emissions.

Taken together, these findings suggest further efforts to reduce UK power station SOx emissions should be assessed for their costs and benefits, while for road transport the planned reductions in allowable primary PM emissions may have significant health benefits.

A new study by consultancy Roland Berger defines an integrated roadmap for European road transport decarbonization to 2030 and beyond; the current regulatory framework for vehicle emissions, carbon intensity of fuels and use of renewable fuels covers only up to 2020/2021.

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The resulting emissions increase in transport would be the equivalent of adding six million cars to Europe's roads.

Another alternative would be road usage charges that reflected things like vehicle tare, emissions, time of day, alternative transport options, driver competence and so forth replacing the existing excise system.