Why you must read this policy brief

The CIHT's Policy Brief Ensuring a Just Transition to Net Zero highlights the challenges that UK's transport professionals face in considering fairness and justice when planning projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions in travel.

The CIHT Policy Brief “Ensuring a Just Transition to Net Zero Transport” explores:

• The link between transport inequality and decarbonisation policies
• The challenges that UK transport professionals face in including considerations of fairness and justice from the outset of transport decarbonisation project
• A worked example of what it means to consider fairness when looking at the phasing out of petrol and diesel vehicles and the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs).

A look at some of the key considerations that will help the sector and governments plan for the future.

Overview

Decarbonisation policies and interventions do not land on society on a level playing field, they interact with a complex network of existing inequalities. While the changes needed to decarbonise transport and our entire economy will affect everyone, the impacts on people will be different.

Access the policy brief to understand:

How the ideal policy will provide incentives for people who have options to choose the one with the lowest carbon emissions, whilst not unfairly penalising those who do not have a choice. Additionally, how to ensure that benefits to one group do not lead to harm for another.

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