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Article: Looking over the horizon: a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from UK transport by 2030 possible argue Robin Hickman and David Banister, but only if we can we move beyond our complacent car addiction and take radical and concerted action to bring about behavioural, cultural and consumer change.(transport and global warming)
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- Town and Country Planning
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- May 1, 2006
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THE GRAVITY of the situation is well understood: global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) are currently (on 2005 measurements) at 381 parts per million (ppm), and rising at 2-3 ppm each year. If we exceed 400-450 ppm then global warming is likely to result in huge climatic difficulties. Essentially we have 10-20 years of current growth before we reach this critical point.
Just how the transport sector can contribute to reducing global C[O.sub.2] emissions is, however, far from being well understood, as traffic levels continue to rise year on year--and consequently so do carbon emissions from the transport sector. For governments and the ...