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30 Spring 2016 European Energy Innovation

TRANSPORT DECARBONISATION

Tackling transport emissions
at EU level thanks to sustainable
urban mobility:

By Karima Delli, Greens-EFA Member of European Parliament, Coordinator of Transport Committee

As a French Green Member
of Parliament, coordinator
of the Transport committee,
my contribution has always
stood in finding a way to reduce
transport emissions and improve
mobility at the meantime. In the past
decades, this equation seemed to be
almost impossible. Since the COP21
agreements, what I considered as
a personal road map has become
a worldwide challenge. As the 3rd
biggest carbon emitter (12% of GHG
after China: 24% and the US: 15%), EU
is somehow "too big to fail" and the
Greens-EFA's group at the European
Parliament is pushing for a whole
strategy in every single sector of its
economy.

Among the economic sectors at
stake, transport is one the most
challenging. In the EU, transport
sector is responsible for 20% of
GHG (versus 14% at world level). In
Europe, as in most well-developed
territories, transport is a very energy-
related issue. And if we assume that
we are entering a new technological
era, as it is claimed by Jeremy Rifkin
under the concept of "Third Industrial
Revolution", one needs to seek for a
closer cooperation between transport,
energy and information technology.
This is what innovation in transport
must be all about. Synergy between
these three aspects provides plenty of
leverages to reach the objectives set
by the COP21.

As a first step towards this
complex approach of transport, I
was assigned rapporteure at the
European Parliament for the report

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