Why are the findings of the new study important for policy makers in the United States?
This study has a sector-based approach and looked at the drivers of global warming, which allows policy makers to focus more specifically on those sectors. It’s important because the study paints a bulls-eye on the way the United States does transportation. We have to control transportation emissions and we’re trying to do that. We have CAFE standards, we have support for new technologies (electric vehicles), and we’re looking at low carbon fuels. But this finding says that we have to look at how much we drive and take actions to reduce the total demand for transportation—particularly driving.
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