Policies to Frame Behavioural Change Towards Low Carbon Transport
Under the Climate Change Act of 2008, the United Kingdom (UK) Government has committed to a cut in greenhouse gas emissions of 80% from 1990 levels by 2050. The first national carbon budgets target reductions of 29-40% by 2020. The majority of planned savings are from technology based measures relating to fuels and vehicles. The share of savings attributable to behavioral measures is very low. Given the scale of the savings required, the uncertainty in delivery of the longer term technologies and the loss of some savings to rebound delivers a consistent message on the need for behavioral change. This paper considers ways of developing a policy framework to encourage the deep cuts in carbon emissions that will be required from the transport sector in the long run. This paper will review existing policies and the effectiveness of behavioral change measures. Innovative policies such as personal carbon trading that could provide the framing push to encourage greater reductions over time are then examined. The acceptability of such measures is considered. To date the evidence suggests that such policies could be designed to achieve public acceptability and may have greater public support than other more conventional measures. Given the need to achieve very large reductions in carbon there is a need to consider more radical framing policies that provide a consistent message to individuals to behavioral change is necessary to achieve continued savings into the future.
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Corporate Authors:
Association for European Transport (AET)
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Authors:
- Bristow, Abigail
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Conference:
- European Transport Conference, 2009
- Location: Leiden Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre , Netherlands
- Date: 2009-10-5 to 2009-10-7
- Publication Date: 2009
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Pagination: v.p.
- Monograph Title: European Transport Conference, 2009 Proceedings
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior modification; Carbon; Climate change; Environmental impacts; Exhaust gases; Greenhouse gases; Pollutants; Technological innovations; Transportation; Uncertainty
- Uncontrolled Terms: Emissions reduction
- Geographic Terms: Sweden; United Kingdom
- Subject Areas: Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01349541
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 10 2011 10:43AM