With greenhouse gas emissions from transport representing 21 per cent of total UK domestic emissions, decarbonising transport must be part of the solution. This will be a major change, but moving to a low carbon economy and transport system also presents huge opportunities; not just for climate change but for our prosperity, health, and the wider environment.
Transport underpins our quality of life and economic prospects and we want to give people and business more low carbon choices about when, where and how to travel, or to transport goods. If we get this right, by 2050 we can expect to see a fundamentally different transport system in our country. Road and rail transport will be largely decarbonised. The technical challenges are greater for aviation and shipping, but these modes too will have seen a transformative improvement in efficiency.
In bringing forward Low Carbon Transport: A Greener Future, a key component of The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, we acknowledge the scale of the challenge for our sector, and set a course towards a low carbon transport system of the future. We set out the actions we are taking to deliver cuts in emissions in line with meeting our obligations under carbon budgets to 2022. And we outline how we are putting the building blocks in place for longer-term change for the period to 2050.
