Transport — Eliminate Substantial Majority of Emissions by 2030 — 5 Feb 2020 at 18:49

The majority of MPs voted not to call on the Government to develop and implement a plan to eliminate the substantial majority of transport emissions by 2030.

The motion rejected in this vote was:

• That this House
• acknowledges that the UK’s transport emissions have not substantially fallen since 1990 and have increased since 2010; and
• calls on the Government to develop and implement a plan to eliminate the substantial majority of transport emissions by 2030, to decarbonise the UK’s entire bus network, to invest in an electric vehicle charging network that can support the majority of vehicles on the UK’s roads by 2030, to cut bus and rail fares, to increase public transport patronage, to provide funding for cycling and walking, including investment in cycleways and grants for ebikes, to introduce a network of clean air zones to tackle illegal levels of air pollution, and to bring aviation emissions within the UK’s climate targets.

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