Centre Conjoint de Recherche sur les Transports OCDE/FIT : Documents de référence
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The International Transport Forum at the OECD is an intergovernmental organisation with 52 member countries. It acts as a strategic think tank for transport policy and organizes an annual summit of ministers. Our work is underpinned by economic research, statistics collection and policy analysis, often undertaken in collaboration with many of the world's leading research figures in academia, business and government. This series of Discussion Papers is intended to disseminate the International Transport Forum’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned.
- ISSN: 20708270 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20708270
The Costs and Effectiveness of Police to Reduce Vehicle Emissions
Transport sector policies already contribute to moderating greenhouse gas emissions
from road vehicles and are increasingly designed to contribute to overall societal targets to
mitigate climate change. The Round Table investigated the effectiveness and costs of
various mitigation options. The question of how to decide on the distribution of abatement
efforts across sectors of the economy was also discussed. Within the broad topic of
addressing greenhouse gas emissions from transport, the Round Table focused on
emissions of CO2 from road transport and in particular from light-duty passenger vehicles.
Policies that reduce fuel consumption below non-intervention levels are in place in most
countries, many adopted for reasons other than reducing CO2 emissions. In the US, both
fuel taxes and fuel economy regulations have been in force for some decades. European
governments have adopted high fuel taxes but are now considering introducing fuel economy
regulations.
A first core question for the Round Table was whether such a combination of
instruments is justified. A second question was whether current policies, and the level of
taxes and standards, are in line with societal climate change mitigation goals and, more
generally, how such goals ought to be defined.
Keywords: climate change, transport, transport costs
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