Greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution from global shipping, 2016–2023
GHG emissions
In 2020, the transport sector added 12 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to the atmosphere, including CO2, N2O, methane, and black carbon. Absent significant policy changes, annual GHG emissions from transportation will soar by 2050 to 21 billion metric tons. However, the ICCT’s policy outline shows how to slash the sector’s GHG output by 8 billion metric tons from the 2020 level.
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- Le Chang, Associate Researcher (Beijing)
- Camila Viveiros, Associate Researcher (São Paulo)
- Kshitij Rampotra, Researcher (New Delhi)
- Deniz Rhode, Associate Researcher (Berlin)
- Maricruz Fun Sang Cepeda, Associate Researcher (Rio de Janeiro)
- Gonca Seber, Researcher (San Francisco)
- Kirsi Fan, Associate Researcher (Beijing)
- Stephanie Searle, Chief Program Officer / Regional Lead (Washington, DC)
- Ray Minjares, Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program Director, Global / San Francisco Managing Director (San Francisco)
- Dan Rutherford, Senior Director of Research (San Francisco)
- Peter Mock, Europe Managing Director / Regional Lead (Berlin)
- Uwe Tietge, Research Lead (Berlin)
- Nikita Pavlenko, Programs Director, Fuels and Aviation (Washington, D.C)
- Felipe Rodríguez, Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program Director, Europe and China / Europe Deputy Managing Director (Berlin)
- Leticia Pineda, Mexico and Canada Regional Lead (San Francisco)
- Pierre-Louis Ragon, Researcher (Berlin)
- Ketan Gore, Associate Researcher (Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh)
- Marta Negri, Researcher (Berlin)
- Jonathan Benoit, Model Developer (San Francisco)
- Carolina Rodrigues Poupinha, Associate Researcher (Berlin)
- Vaibhav Kush, Researcher (New Delhi)
- Namita Singh, Researcher (India)
- Eamonn Mulholland, Researcher (Berlin)
- Hussein Basma, Senior Researcher (Berlin)
- Lingzhi Jin, Senior Researcher (San Francisco)
- Jan Dornoff, Research Lead (Berlin)
- Chelsea Baldino, Program Lead (Berlin)