We're gonna need a smaller boat: emission targets

We're gonna need a smaller boat: emission targets
Recreational boats are the biggest source of non-car residential emissions. (Image: Getty)
Greg Hurrell
One of the curious pieces of data in the Government’s second Emissions Reduction Plan is that recreational boating contributes to one-third of all residential emissions.In fact, those residential emissions don’t include the family car, which is captured in transport emissions.The Ministry for the Environment-authored report says the major contributor to "residential non-road-transport" emissions is largely from mucking around in boats. (Note that this is not "residential non-road" transport emissions. Recreationa...

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