Driving Change: Transport Policies for growth and climate
Top policies to stimulate UK green investment and cut transport emissions.
Transport and the UK general election
For the next Government, the need to tackle climate change is more pressing than ever and transport is the highest-emitting sector
London improving UK’s energy security faster than other regions
Diesel fuel sales fell nearly 40% over the past four years with other regions only managing a decline of 20% - demonstrating ULEZ's positive air pollu...
London diesel fuel sales falling at twice the pace of rest of UK
Sales fell nearly 40% over the past four years with other regions only managing a decline of 20% - demonstrating that the ULEZ not only has positive a...
What is needed from the UK’s revised Clean Maritime Plan
The UK shipping sector urgently needs a policy framework to decarbonise for Net Zero, but indications are that the refreshed Clean Maritime Plan will ...
Reforming UK taxation for large, heavily-polluting cars
The UK is failing to properly tax oversized, highly polluting cars compared to other European countries. Reforming taxes on new car purchases, targeti...
UK government creating “a tax haven” for large, luxury cars
The UK is not properly taxing larger, luxury, more-polluting vehicles which is leading to a flood of oversized cars entering the market
What’s happening with SUVs in the UK
2023 saw a big leap in the number of SUVs being sold in the UK but let's look at the figures a bit more
UK SUV sales have increased by more than a fifth in one year
SUV sales exceeded 1 million in 2023, having increased 23% between 2022 and 2023 and are an increasing share of car sales
Pushing back of ban on new petrol and diesel cars sales will be “an attack on industry, climate and consumers”
Delay of ban will send shockwaves across industry and planned investments in infrastructure and batteries as well as blowing a massive hole in carbon ...
Smaller cars can reduce demand for critical metals by almost a quarter
Cutting battery sizes, improving chemistries and reducing private car journeys can cut expected consumption 36-49% by 2050.
Shared Vision: Tackling the barriers to electric car clubs in the UK
The average British car sits parked for more than 95% of the time, and when used rarely travels very far: well over half the journeys undertaken by ca...