Since 1990, transport emissions have increased 90 per cent, and they’re still going up. Over the same period, agriculture, the largest emitting sector, has gone up 17 per cent. The Ministry of Transport’s (Te Manatū Waka) briefing to new minister Michael Wood suggests significant emissions reductions won’t happen without road emissions coming down. Meaningful reductions are urgent – and “harder measures” will need to start biting “over the next three years”, the document said.
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The Ministry of Transport’s briefing to new minister Michael Wood suggests significant emissions reductions won t happen without road emission coming down. (File photo)