Transport and climate change

In September 2007 the Commission for Integrated Transport published its report, Transport and Climate Change.

At the same time they posted on the web several briefing papers that were written for the CfIT Clmate Change Working Group. This included one entitled CO2 Emissions from Freight Transport in the UK. This paper:

• reviews the available data on carbon emissions from freight transport
• provides estimates of emissions levels by different transport modes
• examines the trend in CO2 emissions for road and railfreight operations
• presents a framework for analysing the inter-relationship between economic growth and freight-related CO2 emissions
• assesses the opportunities for reducing these CO2 emissions
• constructs two scenarios for CO2 emissions from the freight transport sector in 2015
• identifies public policy measures likely to cut CO2 emissions from this sector
• discusses the likely cost-effectiveness of these carbon mitigation measures

Some reference is made to food distribution though most of the analysis relates to freight transport in general.