Environmental Audit - Ninth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 19 July 2006.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Conclusions and recommendations
Introduction
The nature of the challenge for DfT
Government strategy - priorities and effectiveness
DfT's response to this challenge
DfT's analysis of the problem
DfT's priorities and targets
Reducing carbon emissions from road transport
Achieving reductions through "hard"
measures
Voluntary Agreement package
Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
Fuel duty escalator and national road
pricing scheme
Achieving carbon reductions through "soft"
measures
Land use planning and road building
Buses, trains, and water freight
Increasing the number of bus passengers
and low carbon buses
The railways: high speed rail, local
services, and low carbon power
Water freight: missing the boat
Aviation
Growth in aviation within a declining
carbon budget
Consumer information and carbon offsetting
Latest research on radiative forcing
Other issues: developing economies, peak
oil, and the future
Emissions from developing economies
Future price and availability of oil
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
Past reports from the Environmental Audit
Committee since 1997
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 981-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 981-II)
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