Guidance

Transport decarbonisation plan

Plan to decarbonise the entire transport system in the UK.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 14 July 2021
• Last updated: 12 January 2023 — See all updates

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Decarbonising transport: a better, greener Britain

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Additional information on assumptions used to develop decarbonising transport scenarios

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Assumed levels of road traffic and percentage of road traffic from zero emission vehicles, in decarbonising transport upper and lower bound scenarios

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This plan sets out the government’s commitments and the actions needed to decarbonise the entire transport system in the UK.

It includes:

• our pathway to net zero transport in the UK
• the wider benefits net zero transport can deliver
• the principles that underpin our approach to delivering net zero transport

The plan follows on from Decarbonising transport: setting the challenge, published in March 2020, which laid out the scale of additional reductions needed to deliver transport’s contribution to legally binding carbon budgets and delivering net zero by 2050.

In July 2022 we published Decarbonising transport: one-year-on review which gave a summary of our progress over the 12 months since Decarbonising transport: a better, greener Britain was published and outlined upcoming milestones.

Published 14 July 2021
Last updated 12 January 2023 + show all updates

1. 12 January 2023

   Additional information on assumptions used to develop decarbonising transport scenarios.

2. 29 July 2021

   References updated on pages 29 and 208 for clarity and minor text update on the final paragraph of page 132.

3. 14 July 2021

   First published.