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transportaction.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Net zero is being undermined by the Department for Transport! 🧵

https://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/net-zero-undermined-by-dft/

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transportaction.bsky.social•1 day ago

After a promising start with a number of high carbon road schemes cancelled, since Louise Haigh left The Cabinet, things have gone backwards.

The warning signs were there last year when the Labour government decided to defend the Conservative roads policy in the courts...

transportaction.bsky.social•1 day ago

This roads policy effectively allows climate change to be ignored in decision making as the bar for refusal is so ridiculously high, no road scheme or airport would ever reach it.

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/avoid-the-road-to-climate-breakdown/

transportaction.bsky.social•1 day ago

This has been followed by a slew of high-carbon road scheme approvals, the worst being the Lower Thames Crossing with its 6 million additional tonnes of carbon.

At a stroke, the Department for Transport (and Treasury) has made a bad situation worse.

transportaction.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not only will there be substantial emissions from constructing these roads and airports but the extra traffic they will generate will have an even bigger impact.

transportaction.bsky.social•1 day ago

Labour needs to quickly rethink its stance on net-zero. It cannot carry on with its inconsistent approach which will undermine confidence in both the Labour Party and net-zero longer term.

whittipedia.bsky.social•1 day ago

No doubt they will solve it by planting some trees

/sarcasm

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