Transport sector can reduce CO2 emission by 50% by 2050
2 Dec 2015 by Evoluted New Media
The transportation’s sector CO2 emissions could be halved by 2050, according to new research.
The transportation’s sector CO2 emissions could be halved by 2050, according to new research.
However, a large shift in the usage of electric cars is needed to achieve this, as well as promotion of public transport in cities, claim scientists.
It is estimated the transport sector accounts for 23% of global energy related CO2 emissions, with transport emissions expected to double by 2050 due to ‘rapid motorisation’ in China, India and Southeast Asia.
“Large-scale electric mobility could be crucial to halving CO2 emissions of the transport sector by 2050,” said lead author, Dr Felix Creutzig, from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).
He added: “Efficiency gains will be very difficult to achieve with the conventional automobile fleet from 2025 on. A fuel shift will be the only remaining option to advance decarbonisation.”
The study, Transport: A roadblock to climate change mitigation was published in Science in November and involved scientists from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
