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A change in the transportation needs today, a better future for tomorrow – climate change review

Ekpeni, Leonard E.N. and Olabi, Abdul-Ghani orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-7865-1757 (2013) A change in the transportation needs today, a better future for tomorrow – climate change review. In: Dincer, Ibrahim, Ozgur Colpan, Can and Kadioglu, Fethi, (eds.) Causes, Impacts and Solutions to Global Warming. Springer, New York, pp. 933-947. ISBN 978-1-4614-7588-0

Abstract
No sooner than later, the world will be living hell as a result of the transportation effects on our climate now escalating. The pressure is now growing towards their resultant effects to be totally eradicated in order to save our planet otherwise, the stabilisation of these effects; global warming, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and degradation will need to be sought after. The world all over is at it now in an effort to restore our climate, to save it from the effects of these catastrophes/disasters. On the proposition of the Kyoto Protocol in1997, the main focus was to decrease greenhouse emissions of mainly six gases – Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, Hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs) and Per fluorinated Compounds (PFCs). And transport alone, accounts for over 26% of global CO2 and has been regarded as one of the few industrial sectors wherein emissions are still on the increase, on this basis, researchers and policy makers are all at it to tackle the menace of climate changes through provision of sustainable transport. This paper focuses on the new and developed technologies like the renewable energy source [RES], which will be an alternative to transport fuels to avoid the dependence on petroleum which after effects are damaging to the world climate, and may probably not be there forever to continue serving the world ever increasing population. While the long term solutions are being sought, these alternatives will make do for now.
Metadata
Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Kyoto Protocol; Global warming; Sustainable transport; Greenhouse gases; Climate change
Subjects:Engineering > Environmental engineering
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Publisher:Springer
Official URL:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4...
Copyright Information:© 2013 Springer The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:20459
Deposited On:03 Feb 2015 13:41 by Fran Callaghan . Last Modified 03 Feb 2021 13:17
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