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- Durable by Design?
- Durable by Design?
- Copyright page
- Abstract
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Policy Durability
- Part II Designing Policy Durability
- 3 Designing Climate Policy in the European Union
- 4 Climate Policy Designs
- 5 Regulation
- 6 Emissions Trading
- 7 Voluntary Action
- Part III Climate Policy
- References
- Index
7 - Voluntary Action
The Governance of Car Emissions
from Part II - Designing Policy Durability
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2020
- Durable by Design?
- Durable by Design?
- Copyright page
- Abstract
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Policy Durability
- Part II Designing Policy Durability
- 3 Designing Climate Policy in the European Union
- 4 Climate Policy Designs
- 5 Regulation
- 6 Emissions Trading
- 7 Voluntary Action
- Part III Climate Policy
- References
- Index
Summary
For as long as the EU has had a policy on climate change, transport has stood out as an anomalous sector. Between 1995 and 2004, greenhouse gas emissions across the EU declined by 5 per cent but grew by 26 per cent in the transport sector (COM (2007) 856: 2). As noted in Chapter 4, the sector’s position is still anomalous today. Indeed, as the EU’s climate policies have expanded, so too has the perception that the EU’s ability to decarbonise – which by the 2000s had been elevated to one of its most significant strategic ambitions – may well stand or fall on the basis of what is achieved in the transport sector, and especially the road transport sector (ten Brink, 2010: 180–181), which today still accounts for around 70 per cent of overall transport emissions (COM (2016) 501: 2).
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- Durable by Design?Policy Feedback in a Changing Climate, pp. 158 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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