Thread by @_chris_brand_

🎉Out today. #TheClimateBook, a handbook created by @GretaThunberg which includes essays on almost everything 'climate' you might need to know about.

Honoured to be among authors in a chapter with @jillian_anable on transport challenges and solutions.

In ‘our’ chapter on transport challenges and solutions, my colleague and friend Jillian Anable and I argue that tackling the climate and air pollution crises requires curbing all motorised transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possible.

Focusing solely on electric vehicles and technology that is not proven at scale is actually slowing down the race to zero emissions, as it diverts resources and political will away from other solutions.

It is now widely agreed that there is no way we can meet the decarbonization targets of the Paris Agreement by 2050 without focusing on the amount of movement of people and goods.

In the UK, Scotland and Wales have traffic reduction targets by 2030, but the UK as a whole continues to ignore the issue.

The chapter provides ideas and evidence of what we can and should do, both at the system level and individually, covering a range of topics such as 15-minute neighbourhoods, banning large SUVs in cities, active travel, car restraint, ‘slow steaming’ and frequent flying.

Tackling these issues is good for health, safety and air quality; enables more efficient and equitable use of resources; improves social and economic vitality; and makes for better neighbourhoods

From a quick read, the book is an extraordinary body of work, full of passion as well as intellectual heft of the authors. I can’t wait to read it, talk about it, and put its messages into action.