"Transport contributes disproportionally to GHG emissions"

This concluded Professor Jacqueline McGlade, executive director of the European Environmental Agency (EEA) at the presentation of their report 'Transport at a crossroads' to the European Parliament.

"We know the technology exists to tackle impacts of the transport sector on Europe's environment. However, many vehicles rolling off production lines are anything but green, the freight sector still favours the least efficient transport modes and railways across the EU still do not have a unified system," accorcing to McGlade.

The report gives a comprehensive overview of the latest trends in transportation for all EEA member countries and it analyses potentially effective strategies and measures to curb negative effects of transportation. Particularly, transport demand management is considered to be potentially effective, even more so because it can address multiple impacts at the same time.

Original article

• Europe needs to steer transport policy in the right direction

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• Transport at a crossroads - EEA annual report