Sentence examples for cleaner transport from inspiring English sources

The city authorities will also work with national governments and manufacturers, and promote electric vehicles and cleaner transport.

Now that governments are beginning to lean on big oil as well as on the car companies, the drive towards cleaner transport is likely to pick up speed.

In a report, the coalition calculates that by adopting cleaner transport and other measures, countries could reduce air pollution deaths by 3.5 million a year and reduce global warming by about 20%, or 0.5C by 2030.

In its formal response on Tuesday, officials claimed that the government was already spending heavily on cleaner transport and that it plans to consult on a framework for clean air zones later this year.

Tackling air pollution by closing polluting power plants and shifting to cleaner transport, such as cycling or electric cars, has a double benefit as it also tackles climate change.

Voters approved two measures which will generate $150bn in the next decades – a sum exceeding Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, according to some estimates – to replace traffic gridlock, a major source of heat and pollution, with cleaner transport and shaded, pedestrian-friendly sidewalks.

While an expanding auto industry can be part of a country's economic recovery, investments in cleaner public transport have been found to generate even greater economic returns.

In its response, published on Wednesday, the government maintained that the existing date would put the UK at the forefront of the global transition to cleaner road transport.

In the future, even coal is likely to get a little cleaner – in transport if not carbon emission terms – as China ramps up plans to gassify the fuel inside mines and then pipe it to the final destination.

Environmentalism should be at the heart of a new conservatism, broadening and modernising the old Tory obsession with farming and hunting to include climate change, conservation and support for cleaner public transport.

"Improving access to cleaner forms of transport, like electrified public transport, cycling, and walking, would reduce asthma, enhance physical fitness, and cut greenhouse gas emissions," said Anenberg.