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Environment and transport
Ensuring sustainable, environmentally-friendly and resource-conserving personal and freight mobility poses transport policy with a major challenge. To structure transport in an environmentally compatible and resource-conserving way, the Federal Government is pursuing a broad-based package of measures comprised of technical, regulatory policy, price policy and investment measures plus publicity and information measures.Next
Alternative fuels and innovative powertrain technologies - designing the mobile future!
The link between mobility and sustained energy supply is essentially important to Germany's future development as an economic location. Over the coming decades, world-wide energy requirements will rise dramatically - consider China or India, which have only just commenced their modernisation process.
Sustainable mobility
What is the role of transport policy in ensuring sustainable mobility? Can environmental protection and transport exist hand-in-hand? How can we do justice to the three main elements of sustainability - economy, ecology and social parity - in transport?
Federal Government climate change programme: Transport and Climate Change
The update of the National Climate Change Programme 2000 reviews the Federal Government's climate change policy over the past five years. It reveals which concrete measures have led to which reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and whether the sectoral goals have been attained. Based on this analysis, further required actions are identified and a demanding list of measures is presented.
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"Federal Government Fuel Strategy" - promotion of alternative fuels and powertrain technologies
The link between mobility and sustained energy supply is essentially important to Germany's future development as an economic location. This not only involves the aspect of ensuring sustainable mobility, which also necessitates energy supply security. It also refers to public acceptance of traffic in view of the increasing requirements being made on its environmental compatibility.
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