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Climate Conference * Denmark - targets will lead to new era of transport demand management
What is being billed as the largest and most important UN climate change conference in history has opened in Copenhagen, with diplomats from 192 nations warning that this could be the last chance for a deal to protect the world from global warming
Copenhagen,Denmark -Transport Intelligence, by Sarah Smith -9 Dec 2009: ... Everyone in the logistics industry should be aware that the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference will have major implications for the global transport industry if demanding emissions reduction targets are agreed by politicians... The transport industry, as a major contributor of greenhouse gases, will be under considerable pressure to reduce its emissions. Although much has been done, progress has been considered too slow if the EU is to meet existing overall greenhouse gas emission reduction targets by 2020. If the EU commits to further reductions at Copenhagen , governments will have to find new ways in which to constrain transport demand... A document compiled by the European Commission’s European Environment Agency (EEA) prior to the conference warns that these policies have not succeeded in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport and that the effect of mitigation measures has been more than offset by increased transport volumes... It has concluded that existing targets can only be met by a reduction of total transport demand (passenger and freight). This could be through pricing measures or other types of ‘demand management tools’... Constraining demand and regulating supply will have inevitable implications for the transport industry and the wider global economy. Whether this is a price worth paying is, at this stage, largely a subjective judgement, based on whether or not the forecasts of climate change are to be believed... However what is clear is that these consequences will be real, although the full impact on the transport industry in terms of profits and revenue growth are yet to be fully understood... (Photo from joc.com: Panalpina)
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