Dual Plenary 4: Energy Challenges in Transport (p 1/2)

In this session we will discuss the two main energy challenges in road transport. This sector is responsible for about 50% of the global oil consumption and 80 to 90% of all carbon emissions in the transport sector. The challenges are the reduction of carbon emissions and the reduction of local air pollutants in cities. Reliable oil supply is less of a problem now that sources of oil supply have been diversified. For car transport, alternatives are being developed (electricity, hydrogen, biofuels) but these are expensive and rely mostly on massive green electricity production. For freight transport and for aviation, the options are even more difficult. Topics which will be discussed are, amongst others: what will be the future dominant car technology? does it make sense to promote decarbonisation of the car sector given the fact that this is still a much more expensive option to reduce carbon emissions than in other sectors? how will oil producers respond when they see that a large part of their market is disappearing? Chair: Anna Creti, Ecole polytechnique and University of Paris, France (slides) Speakers: Stef Proost, Professor of Economics, Centre for Energy, Transport and Environment, University of Leuven, Belgium. Topic presentation: Fossil fuels (slides) Mats Greaker, Head of Research, Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway. Topic presentation: Biofuels (slides) Yannick Perez, Université Paris-Sud XI / Ecole Superieur d’Electricite, Paris, France. Topic presentation: Electrification of transport (slides)