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Carbon ambition

motorway congestion

Where next for transport and carbon budgets?

7 February 2024

by Greg Marsden This post originally appeared on EDRC The Climate Change Committee (CCC) is currently building its methodology and evidence base for the 7th five-year …

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Categories Carbon ambition, Planning and policy, Travel demand, Uncategorised
house on fire

Rowing Backwards: The New Politics of Decarbonisation

25 September 202325 September 2023

by Greg Marsden In this short blog I reflect on what Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement on Wednesday really means for decarbonisation policy in transport. …

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Categories Carbon ambition, Planning and policy, Uncategorised
gear shift

Reverse gear: The reality and implications of national transport emission reduction policies

25 September 202316 May 2023

New analysis has shown that Department for Transport has quietly rolled back its ambition to introduce cleaner, more efficient road travel.   Transport is the UK’s …

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Categories Carbon ambition, EE, Planning and policy, Travel demand
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Freeports and the Net Zero Review

10 May 202310 May 2023

The UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has commissioned a review of the government’s approach to delivering on its promise to deliver …

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Categories Carbon ambition, Freight, Planning and policy, Uncategorised
private access

Our FOI request has been appealed by DfT: here’s why that matters

4 April 202314 December 2022

by Greg Marsden In March 2022 I submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Department for Transport, asking to see the assumptions about …

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Categories Carbon ambition, EE, Planning and policy, Travel demand
placard saying "you decide"

Behaviour change or system change? How climate action is getting fudged

22 February 202328 March 2022

by Noel Cass Dr. Noel Cass, Research Fellow in Energy Demand Behaviour at University of Leeds ITS, shares his insights on the eternal debate about …

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Better, Fairer, Cleaner – The Transport Decarbonisation Plan v2.0

4 April 20238 November 2021

by Greg Marsden This is the imaginary foreword to a Transport Decarbonisation Plan which addresses how we really get to zero emissions in a hurry. …

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Categories Carbon ambition, Freight, Planning and policy
bus and bike in front of Manchester station

Real zero in a hurry: a UK transport policy maker’s guide to climate action

4 April 20232 November 2021

by Greg Marsden and Richard Walker This post originally appeared on Policy Leeds Previously in this blog series for COP26, Paul Chatterton laid down the challenge …

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Categories Carbon ambition, EE, Place-based, Planning and policy
Climate demonstration

Feeling the climate emergency: what Covid has taught us about facing up to necessity

4 April 20232 November 2021

by Richard Walker This post originally appeared on Policy Leeds “It’s a chilling moment” — Richard Walker, on secondment from the Department for Transport to …

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Categories Carbon ambition, Planning and policy, Travel demand
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Decarbonisation Island Discs: a playlist critique of the Transport Decarbonisation Plan

4 April 202320 July 2021

by Greg Marsden I was really pleased to see the Transport Decarbonisation Plan released on Wednesday 14th July. In 2008 the UK government set out …

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