Road transport
Road transport uses half the global oil consumption and is still an important source to air pollution.
Road transport is still mainly oil driven and is thereby a major challenge in relation to global warming. Furthermore, the oil-dependent transport sector is a key challenge in relation to supply safety in many parts of the world including Europe.
In richer parts of the world e.g., in the EU, efficient regulation of emissions has significantly reduced air pollution from road transport by low-sulphur fuels, catalytic converters, and particulate filters. In developing countries there is still a basic need for political regulation to promote low-sulphur fuels, catalytic converters, and particulate filters. And to build a system to enforce the regulation.
Existing technical solutions can minimize global warming and air pollution from road transport. The solution is of course electric vehicles, a lot more bicycle transport and pedestrians.
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Green Global Future promotes cleaner road transport by:
- Participating in several European networks focused on cleaner transport.
- National regulations to enhance electric vehicles and bicycle transport.
- Engaging with progressive transport stakeholders incl. clean-tech suppliers.
- Low-emission zones to exclude the most polluting vehicles from cities.
- Taxation on new/existing vehicles making polluting vehicles expensive.
- Congestion charge with highest prices for the most polluting vehicles.
- Efficient policies to avoid chip-tuning or other modifications of vehicles.
- Control of particulate filters at MOT test (replacing malfunctioning filters).
- Arranging international conferences on best-practice and efficient solutions.
- Press work to highlight both the pollution and the many technical solutions.
- Performing illustrative air quality measurements in cities and at MOT testing.
