Environmental sustainability
10 Environmental sustainability
The transport system should actively contribute to environmental sustainability by—
protecting, conserving and improving the natural environment;
avoiding, minimising and offsetting harm to the local and global environment, including through transport-related emissions and pollutants and the loss of biodiversity;
S. 10(c) amended by No. 54/2010 s. 73(a).
promoting forms of transport and the use of forms of energy and transport technologies which have the least impact on the natural environment and reduce the overall contribution of transport-related greenhouse gas emissions;
S. 10(d) amended by No. 54/2010 s. 73(b).
improving the environmental performance of all forms of transport and the forms of energy used in transport;
S. 10(e) inserted by No. 54/2010 s. 73(c).
preparing for and adapting to the challenges presented by climate change.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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