Election 2021: How local authorities can decarbonise transport and support a green recovery
Elections took place across the UK on Thursday 6th May. The policies supported by those elected will be key in determining whether the UK delivers …
Carbon ambition
“Is this new road OK? It’s only a bit more carbon…” A guide to carbon budgets and new infrastructure development
By Professor Greg Marsden The choices are simple, it’s the answers that some organisations don’t like. This article is a very short and simple guide …
THE SOLUTION IS THE PROBLEM: a response to the UK Prime Minister’s plan to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030
By Kevin Anderson & Dan Calverley This post originally appeared in The Ecologist The Prime Minister this week announced a ‘10-point plan’ for a ‘green …
A New Green Shovel? Options for the transport stimulus package
By Jillian Anable, Greg Marsden, and Iain Docherty This post originally appeared on CREDS As we begin the difficult transition out of lockdown, attention is …
Creating the Transport Decarbonisation Plan – Are you in?
by Greg Marsden Thursday marked the long awaited launch of the first stage of the Department for Transport’s Decarbonisation Plan. It is perhaps not the …
Coronavirus and the Climate Emergency
by Richard Walker When I joined the DecarboN8 Network team at ITS on a secondment from the Department for Transport just four short weeks ago, …
Budget 2020 – Transport: We can’t build our way out of the climate challenge
DecarboN8 Director, Professor Greg Marsden, analyses the implications of Budget 2020 for decarbonising transport The budget is a missed opportunity to rebalance what we spend …
Decarbonising Transport: Connecting Carbon Targets to Action
Earlier this month we held our first workshop on the theme of Carbon Pathways, ‘Decarbonising Transport: Connecting Carbon Targets to Action’. The workshop was attended …
Aligning UK Car Emissions with the Paris Agreement
Contributed by Kevin Anderson Taking the temperature and equity commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement at face value places mitigation demands on wealthy industrial nations …
Talking Transport at the Leeds Climate Strike
Shona McCulloch, DecarboN8 Network Coordinator The Climate Strike in Leeds on Friday was one of the best attended demonstrations I’ve seen over my years in …