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Larger lorries ‘could help in fight against climate change’

FREIGHT

Andrew Forster
08 January 2016
 

Bigger lorries and more urban consolidation centres would cut carbon dioxide emissions from the UK’s road freight sector, analysts have told the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). 

Road freight emitted an estimated 24 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2013 – 22% of UK surface transport emissions.

The Climate Change Act 2008 requires the UKto cut greenhouse gases by 80% (against 1990 levels) by 2050, with a pathway plotted in five-year carbon budgets. 

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