Actions and policies to reduce CO2 emission in Brazilian freight transportation
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https://doi.org/10.58922/transportes.v31i2.2415Keywords:
Green logistics, Transport planning, CO2 emission, Environmental policiesAbstract
Two aspects are becoming increasingly critical in transport systems planning: the energy performance of transport and the emission of CO2. Interregional cargo transportation is one of the most important CO2 emitting in the transport sector of Brazil, due to the large amount of cargo that needs to be transported over long-distance routes, in the huge part by trucks due to the scarcity of multimodal infrastructure. It is widely known that the road transport mode presents high diesel consumption and CO2 emissions per tonne of cargo transported. If the country does not implement actions and policies aiming to mitigate CO2 emissions, eventually, the freight transportation will significantly increase its environmental impact, worsening the greenhouse effect and climate change, and preventing the country from reaching its CO2 reduction goal agreement made during COP21. In view of this, this article aims to make an exploratory analysis of the main recommended actions and policies to reduce CO2 emissions from cargo transportation in Brazil and to quantitatively measure their impacts. The results reveal that the recommended actions have the potential to reduce 39% of the annual CO2 emission in 2025 in the country, which means avoiding the emission of 43 million tons of CO2 per year in freight transportation. Also, the suggested actions and policies could provide important economic gains, which makes the projects attractive for private investments, which means they could be implemented with little use of public funding.
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