Committee on Climate Change progress report recommends lower and enforced speed limits and more eco-driving
Thu 30 June 2011
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The latest progress report from the Committee on Climate Change which highlights the UK's lack of progress in tackling greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 says that enforcing speed limits and greater encouragement for eco-driving could significantly reduce transport emissions in the shorter term.
The CCC recommends that the 70mph motorway limit should be strictly enforced using cameras monitoring average speed. It says that enforcement of the speed limit declined in 2009, with an increase of 3% in the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit on motorways. More than half of all drivers on motorways now break the limit, it says, and one in six drives faster than 80mph. The Committee calculates that forcing drivers to slow down would lead to a reduction in emissions equivalent to taking more than 350,000 cars off the road.
The CCC says that there has been very limited success at encouraging eco-driving. 10,000 drivers were trained in 2010, compared to the 350,000 required annually by 2020.
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