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Dublin Airport & CO2 – a NERDs view

Passenger limits can’t work due to population growth and the general principle that transport hubs work best at scale, the more flights through Dublin the less CO2 we will emit with direct routings. My view is that we should implement carbon budgets for flying, and make the carbon cost and tax on flying visible to consumers. Its not enough to ‘offset’ your emissions when buying the ticket, show us the actual kg CO2 inclusive of radiative forcing (freely available via ICAO[2] and others for CORSIA[3]). That is we need to put limits in terms of CO2 budgets not passenger numbers.

BMW 3 series compared with its X3 sibling 40 years later 1,280Kg vs 2,010Kg i.e. 57% more weight for same functionality
General / Transport Energy Management

#SUVskam and #TaxByWgt

We cannot ban SUVs – they are needed for real work. We can tax overweight and overly tall vehicles being used where they shouldn’t be – in Budget2025. This is an opinion piece to have overweight SUV’s and pickup ‘trucks’ taxed appropriately i.e. disincentivised just as we did with “gas guzzlers” in the past.

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Wilted Greens?

Tide turns against political party working to reduce your energy costs Working at a local authority last week, I was asked if my Al Gore [ii] Climate Reality 🟢 badge …

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Range anxiety? Me arse!

Life cycle or Range anxiety? Myth. In Mr Bean terms; we only have to mine lithium once, we have to mine and refine fossil fuels continuously. Post features 90+km cycle vs 60km range for eBike.

Front cover of A 'light' guide to energy savings in transport
General / HDV / LDV / no category / Sustainable Logistics / Transport Energy Management

“A ‘Light’ Guide to Energy Savings in Transport” 

The EU mandatory threshold to identify energy savings opportunities (aka energy audits) is to reduce to 10Tj (2.8million litres of diesel eq.) with the adoption of the recast EU Energy Efficiency Directive 2024[1] i.e., the next EU corporate reporting round will bring many tens of thousands of organisations into the scope of transport energy audits to EN16247:2022 Parts 1 & 4 (transport).

So I am proud to see “A ‘Light’ Guide to Energy Savings in Transport”  hit the bookshops this week from River Publishers (https://www.riverpublishers.com/aeebook/book_details.php?book_id=1032) .