How road haulage is navigating the route to net zero
11 October 2024Responsible for 8% of world carbon emissions, can trucking clean up its act?
Responsible for 8% of world carbon emissions, can trucking clean up its act?
Solutions are being developed at Cambridge that can be implemented, grown to scale, and used to accelerate the rapid transition to a net zero and then zero emissions economy.
Whether it’s a bag of oranges or a tank full of petrol, the commodities we rely on will have come down the motorway in a fleet of lorries crisscrossing the country to keep supermarket shelves full and fuel reservoirs topped up. Now a new Centre will look at how road freight can be made more sustainable.
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