Focus on climate undermines transport carriers - road lobby

Focus on climate undermines transport carriers - road lobby
Brent Melville
The government's $4.8 billion annual transport budget is heavily targeted at achieving greenhouse gas emission targets for 2030, which will be to the detriment of roads and the trucking industry, the Road Transport Forum says. Including a $6.8 billion investment in land transport infrastructure, the decade-long spending plan boosts expenditure to a record $55 billion, and is focused on lowering emissions to 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. That's in line with the Paris agreement on climate change and gets even more challenging - net...

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