Climate Change and Transport

Left to right: Jillian Anable, Bettina Lange, Helen Ross

This event took place on Monday 19th May 2008 at County Hall, West Bridgford, Nottingham.

The speakers were:

Dr Jillian Anable

Research Fellow, The Centre for Transport Policy, Aberdeen Business School

Bettina Lange

Campaign for Better Transport and East Midlands Transport Activists Round Table

Chair - Helen Ross

Public Health Development Manager, Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County PCTs.

The lecture was organised by Health in Your Environment with the support of Government Office for the East Midlands, East Midlands Development Agency, Climate Action Network Nottinghamshire, Nottingham City Council and Greater Nottingham Health and Environment Partnership.

Transport is a crucial aspect of our economy and our daily lives. It is also a major contributor to the generation of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

Our approach to transport needs to change fundamentally if we are to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Technology may provide some efficiency improvements but the most pressing need is to address our transport behaviour and travel patterns.

Our speakers were well placed to present informed views of the issues relating climate change and transport and how we might best approach the development of policies to mitigate the impact of transport on climate change. Dr Jillian Anable presented a national perspective and Bettina Lange focused on the local and regional issues. Following short presentations there was a "question time" discussion with the speakers responding to points raised by the audience.

AUDIO CLIPS

You can listen to the speakers being interviewed by our reporter Catherine Adams.

• Jillian Anable (6:27, 4.4MB mp3)
• Bettina Lange (5:51, 4.0MB mp3)

Here are the speakers' presentations.

• Introduction by the Chair, Helen Ross (4:31, 3.1MB mp3)
• Jillian Annable's talk (27:21, 18.7MB mp3)
• Bettina Lange's talk (18:08, 12.4MB mp3)

Here are questions from the audience.

• 1 - Chair's remarks and initial questions (7:07, 4.9MB pdf)
• 2 - Brian Davey asks about "cap and share" (9:50, 6.8MB pdf)
• 3 - Difficulties of telling people they can't use a car (15:23, 10.5MB pdf)
• 4 - The M1, commuting, etc. (10:23, 7.1MB pdf)

RESOURCES

• Jillian Anable's presentation (7.8MB pdf)

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