The National Planning Policy Framework will sideline smart growth in favour of out-of-town sprawl - rolling back decades of town centred development. Now campaigners have launched a toolkit to reduce travel demand within local transport plans
… Campaign For Better Transport: how to reduce the need to travel … Activism Politics And Economics Health Energy Transport Development Public Transport carpollution.jpg The National …
More investment in existing rail lines, joining up the high speed line to public transport and ensuring rail fares are sustainable and affordable are what the government should focus on argues Campaign for Better Transport
… Politics And Economics Climate Change Health Transport Sustainable Development train.jpg … joining up the high speed line to public transport and ensuring rail fares are … should focus on argues Campaign for Better Transport So the plans for the HS2 high speed …
Back in 2000 John Prescott mooted 25 different tram projects across the UK, but a decade later where has that dream gone? Robert Williams laments how we have lost a solution to cutting cars and reclaiming our urban streets
… Robert Williams | 26th April 2011 News Trams Transport Politics And Economics Society … cutting cars and reclaiming our urban streets Transport has been the Cinderella department … mobility, the funding and provision of public transport and the increase in cars on the …
Forget environmental considerations, money’s in the driving seat when it comes to approving transport schemes. It’s time to reappraise the appraisers, says Rebekah Phillips
… Rebekah Phillips | 19th June 2008 Comment Transport Driving Greenhouse Gas Cars Carbon … the driving seat when it comes to approving transport schemes. It’s time to reappraise the … says Rebekah Phillips The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced plans to let …
Parliament has recommended it, Sainsbury’s has tried it and Tesco is doing it, but what is the future for sustainable transport along the UK’s inland waterways?
… 2008 News Waterways Sainsbury's Tescos Transport Climate Change Carbon Off-Setting … it, but what is the future for sustainable transport along the UK’s inland waterways? … become the ‘first major UK retailer to start transporting freight by canal’. The scheme is …
As the fiscal dust kicked up by Alistair Darling's 2010 budget begins to settle, experts say they are 'surprised' by how 'un-green' the budget turned out to be
… 2010: good news for wind; bad news for green transport Mark Jansen | 25th March 2010 News … and the Campaign for Better Transport both attacked the Government for failing to give enough support to public transport. The decision to postphone the …
High petrol prices mean less demand and less pollution, right? Not necessarily, finds Mark Jansen. Our relationship with our cars is far more complex...
… are soaring, more car owners will use public transport instead, drive less and walk more, … increase in car ownership in the UK. Transport experts even suggest that petrol … 109p in 2008, according to the Department for Transport . That's a real-terms increase of …
Tony Blair today insisted that congestion would increase by 40% in under 20 years unless car use is deterred.
… No 10 website Tony Blair claims that public transport alone cannot make up for the 15% … Carmichael, the Liberal Democrat shadow transport secretary, released a statement … record investment. Chris Grayling, the shadow transport sectary, said that road polls are a …
Campaigners from Transport 2000, the sustainable transport group, have exposed the escalating costs of the M6 road-widening scheme.
… widening 31st July 2007 News M6 Road Widening Transport 2000 Cars Politics And Economics … News web pic 2_121.jpg Campaigners from Transport 2000, the sustainable transport group, have exposed the escalating …
Unnoticed by most of the media, New Labour has embarked on a roadbuilding scheme just as large as the one the Tories bragged was ‘the biggest since the Romans’. All over the UK, however, ordinary people have noticed, and everyone – from doctors and teachers, to old-style road protestors – are once again saying: enough is enough. Paul Kingsnorth reports
… ‘capacity’ for it. This flawed system of transport planning, known as ‘predict and … – not just walking, cycling and public transport, but actually reducing both the need … of building its way out of a growing transport problem had the government on the …
The current economic downturn is hard, but it’s also filled with opportunities to remake the world in a more sustainable way, says Stephen Hale
… for a radical transformation of energy, transport, housing and the economy. The case … such as energy efficiency, public transport and fuel efficiency much more … fuel. These prices are having an impact that transport policy has so far failed to make: …
Growing demand for palm oil is resulting in wide spread human rights abuses in Indonesia, claims a new report.
… EU targets to increase the use of biofuels in transport for the rising demand for palm oil. … proposed target of 10 per cent of road transport fuel to come from biofuels by 2020 … target in Europe and do its bit to reduce transport emissions by improving public …
UK’s poor air quality is a bigger killer than passive smoking, road traffic accidents and obesity says parliamentary committee
… The Ecologist | 22nd March 2010 News Health Transport Politics And Economics Air Quality … for dramatic changes to be made to the UK’s transport policy in order to improve the … EAC report did not specifically mention air transport but scientists and campaigners have …
Environmentalists have urged the government to support road pricing plans against a rising tide of protest.
… 13th February 2007 News Road Pricing Cars Transport Douglas Alexander Government Protest … rising tide of protest. Friends of the Earth Transport Campaigner Tony Bosworth said that … with the influx of visitors. Yesterday, the Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander decried …
“Hot on the heels of the Stern report and Tony Blair’s grave warning that we only have ten years left to tackle climate change, the Department of Transport is due to publish a progress report on its 2003 Aviation White Paper, some time before the end of the year.
… to tackle climate change, the Department of Transport is due to publish a progress report … an uniquely environmentally damaging form of transport, yet it draws greater tax exemptions … have been done, to fit into the Department of Transport’s highly questionable cost-benefit …
Targets for increasing the use of biofuels to power cars, trains and buses will result in more ecosystems being converted to agriculture - actually increasing carbon emissions, says new report
… The EU has a target for 10 per cent of total transport fuel to be derived from renewable … will mean overall carbon emissions from transport will increase by more than 10 per … likely to make up majority of renewable transport targets but admits some will need to …
Majority of UK Government departments are choosing to fly staff to destinations easily accessible by train, such as London to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester
… to set a positive example for sustainable transport, with 90 per cent of Government … the failure to tackle air pollution from road transport NEWS Heathrow aiport expansion will … Matilda Lee looks at the bare necessities of transport NEWS Short haul flights not the …
Forty years ago this month The Ecologist reported on the environmental implications of the rise of the Japanese economy. In the wake of the recent earthquake and associated nuclear fears has it cleaned up its act?
… is far from over but Japan's public transportation infrastructure has evolved into … journey by car (amount of CO2 per unit transport volume). The engineering … a range of up to 100miles. These innovative transport solutions have been the result of …
BAA today backtracked on what had been described as “a massive and flabby injunction” against this summer’s Camp for Climate Action
… 5 million people. BAA’s rethink comes after Transport for London, the government body responsible for London’s transport system, attended the High Court …
In the last budget before the general election, Alistair Darling announced a series of measures that could have a positive environmental impact, including a £2 billion green investment bank
… News Politics And Economics Energy Finance Transport Tax Investment poundsonchart.jpg In … low-carbon infrastructure such as energy and transport projects. Loans will also be …
Having been banned from the fields of Heathrow by a court injunction last week, protest group Plane Stupid have set up their own climate camp – under the wing of an Airbus A380 currently being transported along the River Dee.
… the wing of an Airbus A380 currently being transported along the River Dee. Boarding the … metre wing, and are hoping to force the transporter back to its base in Broughton, …
In a remarkable and harrowing dispatch from Guinea-Bissau, Dawn Starin reports how logging, mining and agriculture are opening up the country's once intact forests to the ravages of the growing bush-meat trade, threatening some of the country's most enigmatic monkey species
… smoked so they don't go rotten while being transported long distances from the forest. … to Bissau, and the meat that is taken by the transporters. The numbers are believed to be … are often hidden in charcoal sacks and then transported by truck (there is no rail system) …
The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.
… where it will be sold. Whatever the means of transport, it is propelled by oil, which all … needs energy, but the sources of the world’s transportation fuel are concentrated in … prospect of using the US military to guard transportation routes for the Caspian’s energy …
Environment department has budget cut by 30 per cent compared to government average of 19 per cent
… if you look at announcements on public transport... these are all ways together we're … 2010: good news for wind; bad news for green transport As the fiscal dust kicked up by …