DELIVERING DECARBONISATION A L O G I S T I

across all modes and disciplines, including UPS, DHL UK, THE NEED FOR A REGULATORY REVIEW Michelle Gardner John Lewis Partnership, Wincanton, Scottish Water, and the There are many opportunities and challenges across the Head of Public Policy, Royal Borough of Greenwich, as the sector unites to drive logistics sector to decarbonise and the route to achieving Logistics UK forward the decarbonisatio. [...] THE ROAD TO NET ZERO “After that, they’re going to have to make a decision on The government has set a goal to reach net zero by 2050, the future,” Allen said, “because until they do most of the and transport has a large role to play in meeting that target. [...] So that is a challenge, the government currently has a solution for how it will raise the £45 billion is going to have to come up with a solution.” a year, and suspects that they may be gambling on the INCENTIVES AND INFRASTUCTURE fact that they will not be in office by the time it presents The problem, Adcock believes, is that government has itself as a problem. [...] Euro VI HGVs already made up nearly two-thirds of the UK fleet by the end of 2021, and it is predicted that by the end of this year, Euro VI vehicles will account for 72% of the total number of vehicles, and that number is predicted to rise to 78% by the end of 2022, reaching 80.2% by the end of 2023 and 88.4% by the end of 2024. [...] This is in response to the challenges that it is simply too soon to introduce such schemes and in the automotive supply chain and the fact that the instead the focus should be on supporting and enabling introduction date for Euro 6 in new vans was more than the uptake of zero-tailpipe emission vehicles, for example two and a half years later than for HGVs.