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A Change in the Transportation Needs Today, a Better Future for Tomorrow: Climate Change Review

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No sooner than later, the world will be a living hell as a result of the now escalating transportation effects on our climate. 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 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 in 1997, the main focus was to decrease greenhouse emissions of mainly six gases—carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons 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 chapter focuses on the new and developed technologies like the renewable energy source, which will be an alternative to transport fuels to avoid the dependence on petroleum the after effects of which are damaging to the world climate, and may probably not be there forever to continue serving the world’s ever-increasing population. While the long-term solutions are being sought, these alternatives will make do for now.

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Abbreviations

CO2 :

Carbon dioxide

CH4 :

Methane

PFCs:

Perfluorocarbon

N2O:

Nitrous oxide

HFCs:

Hydrofluorocarbons

SF/6 :

Sulphur hexafluoride

GHGs:

Greenhouse gases

MFT:

Motor fuel taxes

Mtoe:

Million tonne

NGO:

Non-governmental organisations

PFCs:

Per fluorinated compounds

RES:

Renewable energy source

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The author wishes to acknowledge Dublin City University (DCU) for the use of its materials in this research as well as the supervisor to this research student (Dr. Abdul-Ghani Olabi) for the entire work carried out in this study.

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    Leonard E. N. Ekpeni & Abdul-Ghani Olabi

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Ekpeni, L.E.N., Olabi, AG. (2013). A Change in the Transportation Needs Today, a Better Future for Tomorrow: Climate Change Review. In: Dincer, I., Colpan, C., Kadioglu, F. (eds) Causes, Impacts and Solutions to Global Warming. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7588-0_49

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