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With a Factor 8 to the Mobility System of the Future
ISBN: 9789058567017
(PB - EN)
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The transport sector has a significant impact on climate change. Not only is it responsible for a quarter of emissions, but it is also a sector that, due to its strong growth, is not managing to lower its emissions.
In this book, Cathy Macharis demonstrates that emissions need to be reduced by a factor of 8. She presents a scheme of four actions and four conditions that we can use to facilitate a sustainable transition. A story of 8As that can lead to a transformation of our mobility: Awareness,Avoidance, Act and Shift, and Anticipation of New Technology to achieve a sustainable mobility system. But then we also need to Accelerate the transformation through Actor Involvement, Altering Behaviour and falling All in love! Yes, you read correctly: falling in love is the right state of being to achieve change.
Climate change is here to stay. Denying it is pointless. Just like when paralysed by fear or in a doomsday scenario, thinking is futile. The point now is to look for solutions; and they do exist. In this book, Cathy Macharis clearly explains how the transport sector can make the shift to a more sustainable form of mobility. But the book is about much more, it describes the principles that will enable us as a society to make the turnaround to climate neutrality. With a Factor 8 towards the Mobility System of the Future is a book that gives hope and confidence. Making the turnaround may not be easy, but it is entirely possible. And each of us can make a difference.
Former Chancellor Caroline Pauwels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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