Carbon in Motion: Fuel Economy, Vehicle Use, and Other Factors affecting CO2 Emissions From Transport - Energy Policy Special Issue
Energy Policy
Volume 37, Issue 10, October 2009, Pages 3711-3713
This Issue of Energy Policy grew out of events held in 2008 to discuss issues related to the fuel economy and CO2 emissions from new vehicles.
Two Roundtables organized by the International Transport Forum of the OECD and the International Energy Agency in Paris discussed both policies and indicators of fuel use and efficiency of transport. One motivation for these discussions was the ITF Transport Forum held in Leipzig in May 2008, which focused almost solely on the transport, CO2 problem.
The consensus from all these meetings was that policies have to be designed for reducing fuel use and CO2 emissions from transport, policies that can be monitored with good data and indicators. Both policy and monitoring tools will be extremely important for the Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen in December 2009 and beyond.
These papers represent a subset of those given at the two forums held in Paris. The purpose of this collection is to give a flavor of the kinds of analyses required to determine fuel economy and trends from the past few years (as well as into the future), discuss some of the policy options for stimulating improvements in fuel economy, and review at least brief trends in freight, with emphasize on trucking and shipping.
In all authors and their subjects discuss a variety of industrialized countries, as well as China and India. The developed countries discussed include Australia, France, the United Kingdom and the US, all major car producers, as well as Austria and Ireland, countries without car industries.
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