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Zero-emissions vehicles like EVs would need to hit 73% of new light vehicle sales by 2030 to keep transport emissions aligned to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees.
Australia’s transport sector needs to decarbonise fast in order to meet emissions reductions in line with limiting global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
But focusing solely on electric vehicles (EVs) to get us there is unlikely to be enough.
Transport is Australia’s third-largest and fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Currently contributing 21% of Australia’s total emissions, it is projected to become the sector with the highest emissions by the end of the decade.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lily Rau is a senior project manager (transport) for the Climateworks Centre at Monash University. She works with government and industry stakeholders to drive decarbonisation in the transport sector and was the lead author of the recently published ‘Decarbonising Australia's transport sector’ report.
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