The UK Government focus on electric cars is opposed by researchers of climate science, transport policy, engineering and urban planning.
… Electric cars are no panacea Simon Pirani | 23rd … Mini The UK Government focus on electric cars is opposed by researchers of climate … planning. The UK Government has put electric cars at the centre of its disastrous climate …
With all diesel cars failing EU clean air standards in real world driving, and the worst 22 times over the limit, there's only one real solution, write Steffen Böhm & Ian Colbeck: adopt sustainable transport strategies to keep cars off our streets and break our dependence on them.
… It's not just VWs - we need fewer cars, and less driving Steffen Böhm Ian … EU audi3-pollution-cut.jpg With all diesel cars failing EU clean air standards in real … sustainable transport strategies to keep cars off our streets and break our dependence …
Protest at political inaction on climate breakdown has reinforced opposition to the Silvertown tunnel project in east London.
… moving towards transport systems with fewer cars. Downright untruths The tunnel’s … pollution levels, traffic levels and types of cars. They found that “congestion mitigation … produces fewer emissions than traffic queues, cars moving above about 50 mph are less …
A review of Road to Nowhere: what Silicon Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation, by Paris Marx.
… public transport into a vicious circle. More cars means buses getting stuck in jams; more … expense, and flooded the streets with cars that worsened traffic: it also “cycled … to automate drivers and launch flying cars. Fantasy But losing money does not mean …
The implementation of the Silvertown Tunnel project has steamrolled democracy and will pollute the local area and trash the climate.
… jams?” We say: reduce the total number of cars on the road. Which we need to do anyway, … The reality is that road transport in private cars is subsidised and supported, and official … transport – but unity in support of roads and cars. So, when we say “stop the Silvertown …
Scientists and researchers admit despair at the failure of politicians to deliver meaningful climate emission reductions.
… Forum in London last week. Anable warned cars are “getting bigger and heavier” and … many times over”. Moreover, half the electric cars sold are plug-in hybrids, which use “a … public transport, and so on, rather than cars - and destination shift - reducing the …
The Labour party conference adopted the most radical climate policy of any in a G20 economy - but there will be battles ahead: with the leadership, and with union bosses.
… projects that will increase the number of cars on the road and planes in the skies. … ahead by London mayor Sadiq Khan . Electric cars The “electric car revolution” announced … the energy and emissions costs of building cars, roads and parking spaces. Revenue …
Fares for public transport around London should be abolished, says a new campaign briefing from Fare Free London.
… help rapidly to cut the number of private cars, vans and HGVs on the roads – and so cut … travel in high-carbon modes – mainly, private cars – is crucial. The mayor then opted for an …
We must push for social and climate justice to be at the heart of recovery efforts as big capital works out how to profit from Covid-19.
… new plants runs out at the end of this year. Cars In addition, the coronavirus epidemic has … urged car companies to invest in electric cars. In my view, that will merely preserve …
Climate breakdown is driven by industrial production, production by machines controlled by people. But can those very people demand a new, low carbon production?
… Walmart’s logistics or Elon Musk’s driverless cars – the foundation on which a … technocratic dogma - fantasies about electric cars or geoengineering, for example, Mueller’s …
Just when the UK's government might want to be boosting its green credentials it has chosen to do the precise opposite, writes Steffen Böhm: giving tax breaks and subsidies to oil and gas, while attacking renewables and energy efficiency. We must unite to oppose these destructive and short-sighted policies
… government ever " . In: fossil fuels, roads, cars; out: renewables, energy efficiency But …
London is pressing ahead with a £2 billion climate-trashing tunnel project just as UK prepares to host COP26 international climate negotiations.
… What counts, after all, is not the number of cars using a particular stretch of road, but the inexorable increase in the number of cars – and in this case, HGVs – provided for … paper was written, the sale of fossil-fuelled cars has ballooned (in rich countries …
The UK Government cannot claim to be dealing with climate change and build the Silvertown Tunnel.
… and walking, retains pride of place for cars and trucks for the indefinite future ... … traffic spiral. Were the tunnel to be built, cars and trucks will be favoured, public …
Now is the time to fundamentally transform how our societies produce and distribute energy.
… talk about replacing fossil fuelled cars by electric cars, and about “demand reduction” by … – the technological systems in which cars are the predominant mode of transport, …
Review of No Miracles Needed: how today’s technology can save our climate and clean our air, by Mark Jacobson.
… the heavy emissions cost of building electric cars, unless and until industrial processes … of sharply cutting car ownership and making cars smaller. For Jacobson, by contrast, while …
The rise of corporate eco-activism makes a refreshing change from the usual 'campaigners versus corporation' dynamic, write Steffen Böhm & Annika Skoglund. And for companies that embark on this path - like Lush, Ecotricity and Interface - it can work out well for them and the environment. But heed the disastrous consequences for those, like BP, who said one thing, and did another.
Eco-warrior corporations can do great things - but only if they walk the talk! Steffen Böhm Annika Skoglund | 10th November 2015 Comment Green Economy Corporations Campaigning bp-sign-cut.jpg The …
Breathe by Sadiq Khan offers a glimpse into the London Mayor's 'internal struggle between action on climate and corporate interests'.
… traffic. Infrastructure projects that favour cars and lorries undermine the shift to … unique chance to reshape our city” with fewer cars. “We could not replace a Covid-19 health …
Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
… use: electricity systems (about one third), cars and roads (probably one quarter or more) …
Shell's senior management are treading an impossible path, writes Steffen Böhm. On the one hand they accept that climate change is real and serious, and that many of their fossil fuel assets may prove unburnable. On the other, they insist that business as usual will continue for decades to come. It's high time they smelt the coffee!
… the fossil fuels that keep our lights on, cars on the road and their profits growing. …
Renewable energy may play a huge part in helping to achieve the ambitions of the Paris Agreement, now in force and under discussion at COP22 climate talks in Marrakesh, writes Steffen Böhm. But it can never be the whole story, and nor does it relieve the need for deeper changes in how the world works.
… Prius , for example, one of the greenest cars on the market, relies on a range of very …