TR News May–June 2010: Climate Change: Curbing Transportation's Contribution (2010) / Chapter Skim
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TR N EW S 268 M AY–JUN E 2010 15 The author is Senior Transport Energy Analyst, International Energy Agency, Paris. Transportation accounted for approxi-mately 19 percent of global energy useand 23 percent of energy-related carbondioxide (CO2)
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TR N EW S 26 8 M AY –J UN E 20 10 16 ative cost -- based on the value of the fuel savings -- aggressive and concerted policies will be needed to spur rapid adoption and extensive use of the technologies, as well as to encourage travel shifts to more efficient modes. In many cases -- for example, the penetration of new vehicle types -- the pace of change will need to occur at a faster rate than it has in recent decades.
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TR N EW S 268 M AY–JUN E 2010 17 according to a high-growth scenario that accounts for higher growth rates in car ownership and in other activity indicators across the transport modes, transportation energy use would increase by 130 percent by 2050. Continued growth in car ownership is changing passenger travel worldwide.
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TR N EW S 26 8 M AY –J UN E 20 10 18 rapidly after 2030, becoming more price-competitive with petroleum as oil supplies dwindle. In BLUE Map, the share of conventional gasoline and other fossil fuels used by light-duty vehicles falls to below 50 percent of total supply by 2050 (Figure 2, page 17)
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TR N EW S 268 M AY–JUN E 2010 19 etration of EVs and PHEVs will need to move at a much faster pace to achieve the targets in BLUE Map. Strong policy support will be necessary.
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TR N EW S 26 8 M AY –J UN E 20 10 20 GHG-intensive modes to less intensive modes would provide less CO2 benefit. But achieving these CO2 intensity reductions is not guaranteed.
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