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The Transportation sector, including the automobile, rail, shipping and aviation industries, contributes about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions and thus represents a major contributor to climate change. 1 The movement of people and goods produces a broad range of emissions that cause both positive and negative climate forcing, leading to global warming or cooling effects that range in timescale from hours to centuries. 2
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1: Doyle Rice, USA Today 8 January 2008, Study Looks at Transportation's Effects on Global Warming. Retrieved on: 20 February 2009.
2: Terje Berntsen and Jan Fuglestvedt, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research–Oslo, 3 October 2008. Global Temperature Responses to Current Emissions From the Transport Sectors, pg. 1. Retrieved on 20 February 2009.
Resources
Sectoral Proposal Templates, GtripleC and Ecofys. These templates give developing country policymakers a step-by-step methods to establish a transportation sector emission baseline in support of a post-Kyoto climate regime that incorporates sectoral approaches.
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