Transportation is the second largest contributor to total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and responsible for about one-third of U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels. There are a variety of policy strategies that can be used to address GHG emissions from the transportation sector; this paper focuses on two such mechanisms. The first policy is an economy-wide cap-and-trade program, which would include transportation fuels under the cap and, thus, limit GHG emissions from fossil fuel combustion. The second is a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS), which would set a carbon intensity targets for the entire range of transportation fuels. Either one or both policies can be implemented as a means to reduce GHG emissions from transportation.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/policy-options-reducing-ghg-emissions-transportation-fuels
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/pew-center-global-climate-change
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fuel-standards
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/transport
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cap-and-trade
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fossil-fuels
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us
