Rationing use of cars may be only way to cut emissions

EXCLUSIVE: The only way to meet targets on cutting Yorkshire’s carbon emissions would be to ration journeys and introduce congestion charging, new research reveals.

Even if a whole raft of measures was introduced


Currently, 24 per cent of Yorkshire’s carbon emissions come from transport, with the region committed to reducing its total levels of CO2 by 25 per cent by 2015, and 80 per cent by 2050.

A new study by the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly attempted to show how this may be achieved but in a startling conclusion, its strategists admit that, even with unlimited funding for new schemes and with projects being fast-tracked, the best that can be hoped for is that by 2021 carbon emission levels return to the 2008 rate.

Yorkshire Post