CO2 Emission Reduction in Transport - Confronting Medium-Term and Long-Term Options for Achieving Climate Targets in the Netherlands

by A. Hoen, K. Geurs, H. de Wilde, C. Hanschke and M. Uyterlinde

- To meet long-term climate targets, developed countries should reduce greenhouse gas emission with 65 to 95% compared to 2000 levels. If the transport sector should match these reductions three crucial conditions need to be fulfilled: (1) substantial changes in travel behaviour, travel demand and public acceptance, (2) availability of zero-carbon or low-carbon fuels, (3) availability of advanced vehicle technology. The measures that are currently available for the period until 2020 do not have sufficient potential to meet the long-term climate targets. To meet the goals, there is a need for parallel investments in 'new' technologies (electricity, hydrogen) which, in the future, could be decarbonised to a large extent.

Hoen, A., K. Geurs, H. de Wilde, C. Hanschke and M. Uyterlinde (2009). "CO2 Emission Reduction in Transport - Confronting Medium-Term and Long-Term Options for Achieving Climate Targets in the Netherlands" Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), PBL publication number 500076009, July 2009.