Claim: Britain to complete plan next year to reach net zero transport emissions.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Conservation movement
text: country, with the expectation of influencing policy decisions in other major countries. The proposal hopes to ignite the interest of private companies to engage in practices that reduce their emissions, for example, using more fuel efficient routes in transportation, relying more on digital documents than printed ones, adopting LED lighting in offices and using more efficient air conditioning systems. The government's approach to attain zero net emissions has yielded positive results overall, but has been described as insufficient and lacking by experts because it neglects vehicular emissions which account for nearly 20% of the country's total emissions. The 2021 target

title: Air transport in the United Kingdom
text: account the total impact of emissions attributable to aviation is estimated to be twice that of its carbon emissions alone. Although the Government has committed to reducing total UK carbon emissions by 80 per cent from existing levels by 2050, its policy is based on the use of "… economic instruments to ensure that growing industries are catered for within a reducing total." Even if this reduction in total carbon emissions is achieved, research published in February 2006 concluded that aviation could account for between 24 per cent and 50 per cent of the UK's carbon budget by 2050. The

title: Energy conservation in the United Kingdom
text: fuel tax, and stated that fuel prices should rise each year 'at least in line with inflation'. From 2008, a Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation is being introduced, under which petrol and diesel are likely to be blended with 5% biofuels by 2010. It is anticipated that this will cut carbon emissions in the transport sector by between 2% and 3%. The 'Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership' is pursuing the goal that new cars should produce no more than 100 g/km of CO by 2012. It also works in on reducing carbon emissions from commercial vehicles and in the area of alternative

title: Energy policy of the United Kingdom
text: regulated under the Kyoto Protocol, so that if the UK is successful in carbon emission reduction, aviation will constitute 25 percent of UK generated greenhouse gases by the year 2030. The UK government has one project in the planning stage for natural gas fed power generation with carbon capture by seawater. This facility is contemplated at Peterhead, Scotland, a relatively remote exposure to the North Sea. Prof Kevin Anderson raised concern about the growing effect of air transport on the climate in a paper and a presentation in 2008. Anderson holds a Chair in Energy and Climate Change at the

title: Energy policy of the United Kingdom
text: emissions is 80 percent decrease by the year 2050. A scheme of trading for carbon emission credits has been developed in Europe that will allow some of the reduction to arise from economic transactions. Road transport emissions reduction has been stimulated since 1999 by the banding of Vehicle Excise Duty. Bands for new vehicles are based on the results of a laboratory test, designed to calculate the theoretical potential emissions of the vehicle in grammes of CO per kilometre travelled, under ideal conditions. Average carbon emissions fell from 192 to 172 grams/mile between 1995 and 2004. Aviation fuel is not

title: Sustainable transport
text: Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that We recognise that we cannot simply build our way out of the problems we face. It would be environmentally irresponsible – and would not work. A companion document to the White Paper called "Smarter Choices" researched the potential to scale up the small and scattered sustainable transport initiatives then occurring across Britain, and concluded that the comprehensive application of these techniques could reduce peak period car travel in urban areas by over 20%. A similar study by the United States Federal Highway Administration, was also released in 2004 and also concluded that a more

title: Air transport in the United Kingdom
text: emissions made at ground-level; and that social pressures and marketing programs such as frequent flyer miles programs that both encourage a growing amount of travel and means to go. Climate scientist Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research demonstrated in 2009 that continued annual growth in UK air travel at the usual seven percent until 2012 and at three percent thereafter will lead to such travel consuming 70 percent of the UK's total planned national carbon emissions by 2030. In that less-than-business-as-usual scenario, UK air travel emissions would increase from 11 MT in 2006, to 17 MT

title: Air transport in the United Kingdom
text: rail lines) and includes plans for one of the World's largest airports. It would be capable of handling 150 million passengers a year, have 4 runways and be built on a platform in the Hoo Peninsula in Kent. Whilst carbon emissions from all UK activities other than aviation had declined by 9 per cent in the 10 years between 1990 and 2000, carbon emissions from aviation activities doubled in the same period. Air transport in the UK accounted for 6.3 per cent of all UK carbon emissions in 2006. When the radiative forcing impact of other emissions are taken into

title: Vision Zero
text: 2020. This is a significant step change in transport policy at the European level. All new roads are built to this standard and older roads are modified. Transport appraisal in the United Kingdom is based on New Approach to Appraisal which was first published in 1998 and updated in 2007. In 2006 the Stockholm Environment Institute wrote a report at the request of the UK Department for Transport titled 'Vision zero: Adopting a Target of Zero for Road Traffic Fatalities and Serious Injuries'. In 2008 the Road Safety Foundation published a report proposing on UK road safety which referenced Vision

title: Beyond Zero Emissions
text: 4-part Zero Carbon Australia Transport Plan. This is Beyond Zero Emissions' modelled costings to shift all of Australia's urban cars and buses to 100% battery electric vehicles (BEVs) powered by 100% renewable energy, cutting at least 6% of Australia's GHG emissions and fully a half of the nations transport emissions. Allowing for a 10-year transition costed over 20 years and assuming that battery prices drop in line with current trends the cost to the economy of a full transition was found to be the same as business-as-usual. All BZE publications are available as PDFs free of charge. Research for the

title: Energy conservation in the United Kingdom
text: international passengers were carried through UK airports (159.1 million in total, including domestic aviation). Due to the expansion of airport capacity envisaged by the Department for Transport's white paper "The Future of Air Transport", it is forecast that 470 million passengers are likely to be carried by 2030. Using the Department for Transport's 'best case' emission forecasts, in their August 2006 report the Environmental Audit Select Committee expect that the sector will account for 24% of the UK's emissions in 2050, compared to around 5% in 2006. In addition, due to a variety of altitude-related factors, carbon emissions from aviation

title: Greenhouse gas emissions by the United Kingdom
text: to 2012. These commitments have been surpassed and new targets set. The Climate Change Act 2008 set the country's emission reduction targets. The "legally binding" targets are a reduction of least 80% by 2050 (against the 1990 baseline). It also mandates interim, 5-year budgets. The first three are as follows: Budget 1 (2008–12): Total cap of 3018 million tonnes CO equivalent (22% below 1990 baseline) Budget 2 (2013–17): 2782 MtCO2e (28% below baseline) Budget 3 (2018–22): 2544 MtCO2e (34% below baseline) The European Union has its own emissions target, to which the UK contributes. This currently stands at 20% by

title: Renewable energy in Norway
text: July 2016 the proposed National Transport Plan 2018-2029 (NTP). The plan explains that the transportation sector accounts for emissions of about 16.5 million tons of , which is about one third of the total greenhouse gas emissions produced domestically in Norway. And road traffic, including both private cars and heavy vehicles, account for about 10 million tons of . The NTP set policies and actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from private cars, trucks, ships, aircraft and construction equipment by about one half until 2030. In order to achieve this objective, among others, the NTP sets the goal that all

title: Gateshead College
text: of a unique new open-access test track facility – the only one of its kind in Europe. On January the 17th 2012 Transport Minister Norman Baker MP officially opened the Zero Carbon Futures Performance Track and Low Emission Vehicle Development Centre in Washington, Tyne & Wear. The Centre is designed to facilitate the development of the transport of the future providing the ideal location for anyone – academics, automotive manufacturers and system developers - to test and trial new transport technologies. The test track and workshop building at Nissan Sunderland Plant has been signed over to Gateshead College on a

title: Sustainable development in Scotland
text: that manages and promotes sustainable transport in Scotland announced that, despite a goal of reducing carbon emissions for travel by staff by 8% over a two-year period, that they had risen by 3%. Transport Scotland has now set a new target of cutting their travel emissions by 12% over the next three years. In 2011 Caledonian MacBrayne announced they were developing engineering concept designs for the world’s first sea going RORO passenger hybrid (battery/diesel-electric) ferry. The ferries are designed for use on short crossing routes and use battery banks supplying a minimum of 20% of the energy consumed on board.

title: Energy conservation in the United Kingdom
text: December the 5th 2015, and all required participants (those companies with over 250 employees or a turnover of 50m Euros and a balance sheet of 43m Euros) are required to have completed an energy audit by an appointed lead assessor by this date. Transport continues to grow as a significant user of fuel in the UK, and along with housing, this continues to be one of the major challenges to achieving the Government's carbon reduction targets. By 2003 the amount of fuel used by transport had risen by around 60% since 1970. While oil is the main energy source, electricity

title: Energy policy of the United Kingdom
text: School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester in the UK. He has pointed out that even at a reduced annual rate of increase in UK passenger air travel and with the government's targeted emissions reductions in other energy use sectors, by 2030 aviation would be causing 70% of the UK's allowable CO emissions. The UK Government published its White Paper on Energy ("Our Energy Future – creating a Low Carbon Economy") in 2003, establishing a formal energy policy for the UK for the first time in 20 years. Essentially, the White Paper recognised that a

title: Niall Dunne
text: tenure BT achieved its target to reduce carbon emissions by 80% four years early. In support of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming by 1.5C, BT increased its commitment to an 87% emissions reduction by 2030 working as part of the Science-Based Targets Initiative. To further support these ambitions and continue Niall’s mission to move BT away from fossil fuels, in 2017 BT announced the phase-out of diesel and petrol-only vehicles in its fleet of almost 30,000, one of the largest fleets in the UK. During 2012, the World Economic Forum (WEF) inducted Niall into the Forum of Young

title: The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership
text: The UK government has set a target for reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions and recognises that achieving its target will require emissions from road transport, which are significant, to be cut. The LowCVP is a public-private membership organisation which operates by bringing significant stakeholders together to provide broad-based expert commentary on the issues, to stimulate promising initiatives, and to encourage lower carbon vehicle and fuel technologies and businesses. Membership is open to organisations with a stake in the UK’s move to low carbon vehicles and fuels who agree with its principles and commitments; some 200 organisations were members in 2015

title: Committee on Climate Change
text: 3. Aviation emissions must be included within a UK strategy to tackle climate change Key recommendations:<br> 1. Scotland's interim target to reduce emissions by 42% by 2020 is ambitious, but achievable<br> 2. Flexibility should be added to system of using annual targets to reduce risk<br> 3. Scottish government should set out a strategy to deliver budgets through strengthening key policies Key recommendations:<br> 1. Funding for a suite of low-carbon technologies required to meet 2050 target should be protected<br> 2. Any reduction in current funding levels (£550m per year) would increase the risk of missing carbon budgets<br> 3. UK should focus