BLOG: China’s efforts to decarbonize road transport are decent, but not sufficient

China

Mar 18

Written By WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Over the past decade, China continuously rolled out regulations and policies to reduce fuel consumption from new cars and trucks and to shift to electric vehicles, and the country experienced a spectacular flourishing of its electric vehicle market. Still, ICCT’s emissions modeling shows that the pace of progress must be accelerated going forward in order to meet future carbon-peaking and net-zero commitments. The piece recommends that China establish greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and trucks such that by 2035, new cars are zero-emission fleet-wide and the carbon intensity or fuel consumption of average new heavy-duty vehicles is reduced by two-thirds.

Read the full blog by Yuntian Zhang and Hui He on theicct.org.

International Council on Clean TransportationICCT

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