"Transport Sector must be Decarbonised Rapidly"

Oliver Lah talks about the future of the transport sector and pleads for a wider sustainable urban development approach

  • News 23.03.2018

"In order to meet the 2 degrees target or even to exceed it as envisaged in the Paris Agreement, it is necessary that the transport sector rapidly decarbonises in both developed, developing and emerging countries. This would require substantial policy action," says Oliver Lah, Head of the Research Unit Mobility and International Cooperation in the Division Energy, Transport and Climate Policy at the Wuppertal Institute, in the interview with Nikhil Chaudhary for the online-magazine "The Governance Post", published by the Hertie School of Governance.
Furthermore, Lah emphasises the importance of "policy packaging", which can tackle multiple targets and help facilitate coalition building among key political actors. This can help creating lock-in effects, which help stabilising the policy environment against political volatility. Regarding sustainable mobility perspectives, Oliver Lah underlines that innovation in the transport sector also includes social innovation such as sustainable, multimodal mobility behaviour and is not such limited to technological innovation.

The full interview can be read under the following link.


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