Low Carbon Travel
Sustrans' low carbon travel team are actively working with policy makers, practitioners and the public to ensure that the crucial need for behaviour change in the way people travel is both understood and embraced. They are also working to ensure that the role of all Sustrans' work in delivering low carbon travel is widely recognised and then deeply embedded in transport policy as well as in linked areas such as planning, education, trade and industry, health and economic policy.
There is one absolutely fundamentally important point - to achieve low carbon travel with our current technology we will also all have to travel less far. This is, of course, quite a challenge given the apparently inexorable rise of long distance commuting, out of town shopping centres, cheap and accessible air travel and other factors tending to increase the distances we travel. Sustrans low carbon travel team will be working to raise this necessity higher up the political agenda.
Low Carbon Travel information sheet
On 4 May 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report focussing on mitigation of climate change through limiting or preventing greenhouse gas emissions. Published to co-incide with the report, Sustrans' Low Carbon Travel Information Sheet comprehensively details the key role sustainable transport plays in the reduction of CO2 emissions.
There is now overwhelmingly strong evidence that it will no longer be possible to mitigate the worst effects of human induced climate change unless we can contain the average surface Earth temperature to within 2° celsius of pre-industrial levels.
Sustrans believes that the last chances to do that are now upon us and further that, as part of the response urgently needed, it is imperative that developed countries lead the way in changing to low carbon travel.
Download the Low Carbon Travel information sheet (PDF).
Download a Welsh language version - Teithio carbon isel (PDF).
I Count
Sustrans is a member of the Stop Climate Chaos I Count campaign. Stop Climate Chaos is a growing coalition which includes most of the UK's leading environmental and international development organisations as well as women's organisations, activist groups and faith-based campaigns.