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How can councils declare climate crisis and build roads?

Professor John Whitelegg Foundation for Integrated Transport Fellow in Transport and Climate Change Shrewbury SY3
16 December 2020
 

There is a general agreement in the scientific and policy world that climate change is a very serious problem. Some 340 councils plus national government have recognised this seriousness and declared a climate emergency. Declaring an emergency implies a need for strong action to reduce greenhouse gases to levels that are compatible with the Paris agreement but transport policy, with some honourable exceptions, is still embedded in the old ‘predict and provide’ model and over 100...

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