The reducing environmental impacts strategic priority is in recognition that there is an environmental aspect to all transport, and therefore almost all the work of DfT. Transport is the largest emitting sector of greenhouse gases in the UK, contributing 27% of domestic emissions in 2019. Our transport system must change to deliver the government’s Net Zero ambition and DfT will drive forwards that change through our longer-term green transport agenda. On decarbonisation specifically, we published our Transport decarbonisation plan (TDP) in July 2021, which sets out the steps we will take to deliver the necessary carbon reductions across every form of transport. Sustainability will be at the heart of levelling-up. People everywhere will feel the benefits – villages, towns, cities, and countryside will be cleaner, greener, healthier and more prosperous and pleasant environments in which to live and work
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Following the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, several countries committed to banning internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to ensure global emissions could be kept below 1.5o (IPCC, 2023, UNFCCC, 2015). The i...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
Partially relevant as it focuses on the politics of EV transition and barriers to market growth.
An Introduction to your Project Sustainable Ventures Development Partners (“SVDP”) works with cleantech investors, entrepreneurial managers, and corporates to originate, build and grow sustainable companies. Growth of th...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: SUSTAINABLE VENTURE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS LTD
The project proposes the creation of a competitively priced, wholly electric, pay-per-use car club addressing the present and future needs of the personal urban transport market through existing community networks, which directly relates to the question about public expectations and affordability of EVs relative to other cars.
The North East’s Switch EV electric vehicle trial is one of eight national trials of electric & hybrid vehicles funded by the Technology Strategy Board’s £25m Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator Programme. Th...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: NISSAN MOTOR MANUFACTURING (UK) LIMITED
The project is a trial of electric vehicles to understand barriers to mass adoption, but it does not directly address the question about public expectations and affordability of EVs relative to other cars.