Environmental Protection and Employment in Nordic Countries

Environmental Protection and Employment in Nordic Countries
Author: Nordic Council Of Ministers Staff
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1997
Genre: Environmental policy
ISBN: 9789291209477

On cover: Environment. Forewords in Swedish & Finnish. About the effect of government policies on carbon dioxide emissions.

Unsustainable Transport

Unsustainable Transport
Author: David Banister
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2005-09-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134325118

This book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture to issues in transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organisational constraints on change. The central part of the book explores these links in more detail at city level, covering land use and development, economic measures, and the role that technology can play. The final part looks for inspiration from events in developing countries and the means by which we can move from the unsustainable present to a more sustainable future.

Mobility as a Service and Greener Transportation Systems in a Nordic context

Mobility as a Service and Greener Transportation Systems in a Nordic context
Author: Anna Laine
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 928935917X

The transport sector is a major source of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. This study estimates the potential of digitalized mobility solutions, such as Mobility as a Service (MaaS), to reduce emissions and vehicle kilometers travelled in the Nordic countries. Also, to assess the potential future impact of MaaS, modelling is done to project road transport’s energy consumption, CO2 emissions and total costs in the Nordic countries up to 2050. There are still several barriers to the wider adoption of shared mobility services. We present ways to overcome these barriers with incentives and policy instruments to substitute car ownership, and specify what different actors can do to accelerate this change. Finally we present policy recommendations on how to reduce the dependence on car ownership, reduce the vehicle kilometers driven, and stimulate the demand for greener mobility services.

Environmental impacts and potential of the sharing economy

Environmental impacts and potential of the sharing economy
Author: John Magne Skjelvik
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9289351578

The various sharing initiatives seen in the Nordic countries over the last years within transportation, housing/accommodation, sharing/renting of smaller capital goods and personal services could yield considerable benefits for consumers due to better quality and/or lower prices of the services. They also have a potential for emissions reductions of CO2 and local pollutants. However, savings from lower prices could lead to increased emissions from increased demand of the services (particularly transport) and increased spending on other goods and services. Depending on how consumers spend their savings, these changes could partly, wholly or more than offset the initial emission reductions. The impacts on overall CO2 emissions depend on whether the emissions are taxed, part of the emissions trading system EU ETS or not regulated at all.

Europa World Year

Europa World Year
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 2464
Release: 2004
Genre: Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN: 9781857432541