Transport sector can do more to protect climate
UBA, Germany: International and national climate protection goals can only achieved if all sectors of the economy do their fair share. Forecasts predict that traffic will continue to grow. Therefore it is upon the transport sector to make effective cuts in its emissions of greenhouse gases. The new research project study titled “Renewbility II” assessed the opportunities and potential of climate protection based on application of a new model. The findings show that the transport sector is well-positioned to make significant reductions of its greenhouse gases by 2030. Said President Jochen Flasbarth of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) at the opening of the expert conference on “transport and climate protection”: “The transport sector in Germany can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions up to 2030 by well over one-third of its emissions in 2005, with positive effects for the economy. We now need the framework within which all the players in the transport sector can actually realize this benefit for the climate.” The Renewbility conference is sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Environment and UBA. (Source: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/uba-info-presse-e/2012/pe12-042_transport_sector_can_do_more_to_protect_climate.htm)