Transforming Transport to Ensure Tomorrow’s Mobility

Transforming Transport to Ensure Tomorrow’s Mobility Transforming Transport to Ensure Tomorrow’s Mobility 12 Insights into the Verkehrswende Impressum Transforming Transport to Ensure Tomorrow’s Mobility 12 Insights into the Verkehrswende A discussion of the most important challenges facing the decarbonisation of the transport sector and the transition to sustai. [...] By 2050, speaks of the “complete elimination of greenhouse gases the sector is to be “nearly independent of fossil fuels and from the world economy” over the course of the cen- hence greenhouse gas neutral.”15 tury and calls on Germany to be “mostly greenhouse gas neutral by 2050.”14 One year before the Climate Action Plan was enacted, the participants of the G7 summit in Elmau discussed The 2050. [...] In the mid-2016, the EU Commission set the agenda • The more renewables are converted into fuel, the more for low-emission mobility.30 But many member states, wind and solar energy is needed to achieve the same including Germany, show few signs of the sought-after number of kilometres travelled. [...] by inconsistencies: promoting the purchase of electric vehicles while cutting taxes on diesel and introducing a Therefore, the best option for the energy transition in company-car tax that favours frequent trips and offers transport is to use electricity directly in the form of bat- no incentives for the use of low-emission cars. [...] port to the mobility network The commercial transport of goods and services – the Reliable and convenient public transport remains the lifeblood of any city – poses more difficult challenges.