Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 22nd June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of automotive emissions on climate change in the next five years.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 25th June 2015

Cars, vans and heavy good vehicles emit greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, which contribute to climate change.

Each year the Government publishes updated energy projections analysing and projecting future greenhouse gas emissions in the UK.

The last set of data was published in September 2014 and projects a reduction in road transport emissions over the period 2015 to 2020 from 108 Mt CO2 to 99 Mt CO2, based on current committed policy.

The UK has some of the most stretching carbon targets in the world which will see a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in 2025 compared to 1990 levels, on a path towards an 80% reduction by 2050.

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