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:
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2018 highlighted the need for urgent, transformative change, on an unprecedented scale, if global warming is to be restricted to 1.5C. The challenge...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
The DecarboN8 project specifically addresses the question by developing solutions for rapid decarbonization of transport and understanding the carbon impacts of different options.
The project will develop methodologies for a novel, fully tailored, biofuel blend production process which optimises the blends and their production design parameters on the basis of a range of targets: performance in en...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
The SusLABB project focuses on developing methodologies for biofuel blend production, which partially addresses the question of future feedstocks and their competing uses across the economy.
TranSensus LCA aims to develop a baseline for a European-wide harmonised, commonly accepted and applied single life cycle assessment (LCA) approach for a zero-emission road transport system. Such a European single LCA ap...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: RICARDO UK LIMITED
The project is relevant as it aims to develop a life cycle assessment approach for a zero-emission road transport system, which partially addresses the question about maximising carbon savings from low carbon fuels across different transport modes.