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:
Urban environments are home to the majority of people on the planet and so ensuring these systems provide healthy, productive and resilient environments is critical. Green infrastructure - which we define as a network of...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Salford
The project focuses on maximizing ecosystem services in urban environments, including biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality, which directly relates to the impact of linear transport infrastructures on connectivity and genetic diversity of species.
Urban areas cover just 2.8% of the Earth's land area, but over 50% of the human population lives in them, and these proportions are growing rapidly. Such heavy concentration of people has a wide variety of important cons...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
The project explores the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban areas, which is relevant to understanding the impact of linear transport infrastructures on connectivity and genetic diversity of species, but does not specifically address the quantification and mapping of this impact.
Urban areas cover just 2.8% of the Earth's land area, but over 50% of the human population lives in them, and these proportions are growing rapidly. Such heavy concentration of people has a wide variety of important cons...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield
The project investigates the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban areas, which is relevant to understanding the impact of linear transport infrastructures on connectivity and genetic diversity of species, but does not specifically address the quantification and mapping of this impact.