Research for TRAN Committee – Decarbonisation of EU transport

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This study shows that very significant Green house gas (GHG) reductions are still necessary in the transport sector to meet EU medium and long-term climate targets. The urgency of swift policy action has increased with the Paris Agreement of December 2015.

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, September 2017: Research for TRAN Committee - Decarbonisation of EU transport http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/601989/IPOL_STU(2017)601989_EN.pdf

ESO: Paris Climate Change Conference, November-December 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/paris-climate-change-conference-november-december-2015/

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