Posts tagged with 'road transport'
Urbanization and rising transport demand are putting real strain on Kenya’s transport systems. Road transport already accounts for about 13% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, and this share is projected to rise to around 17% by 2030 as the population and ...
At 5 a.m., an electric bus glides out of its depot after charging overnight, ready to carry children to school without spewing diesel fumes. As the city stirs, heat pumps have already brought homes and offices to a comfortable temperature, ...
When fuel queues stretch for kilometers and commuters wait hours hoping public transport will eventually show up, the fragility of Ethiopia’s transport systems becomes impossible to ignore. A recent national fuel crisis — triggered by global supply disruptions after the ...
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David Waskow, Jennifer Layke, Nate Warszawski, Preety Bhandari, Gabrielle Swaby, Natalia Alayza, Jamal Srouji, Mario Julien Díaz, Edward Davey, Rogier van den Berg, Roman Czebiniak, Paige Langer and Nathan Cogswell on December 19, 2023
The COP28 climate talks began with a new fund to address the increasingly severe losses and damage vulnerable countries face from climate impacts and concluded with the first international agreement to tackle climate change’s main driver: fossil fuels. Those bookends to the Dubai summit ...
Electric vehicle sales have been growing exponentially due to falling costs, improving technology and government support. Globally, 10% of passenger vehicles sold in 2022 were all-electric, according to analysis of data from the International Energy Agency. That’s 10 times more than ...
Transportation connects us to one another. It’s how we get to school and work, how we visit our families, and how we access our food and health care. It’s also how we ship goods and deliver services. As economies and ...
The world’s ability to overcome the climate change challenge hinges, in part, on what happens on China’s roads. China’s cars, buses, trucks, shipping and other transport generated 828 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2014. That’s almost the equivalent of the EU ...
Half a century ago, a lethal haze of smoke and fog, otherwise known as the Great Smog of 1952, covered London and killed as many as 12,000 people. More recently, in 2013, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died at the hands of air pollution. ...