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iDnes.cz | Transportation poverty: billions won't go on petrol, but to public transport

Efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions also have less discussed impacts, such as transport poverty. While wealthier households invest in green technologies such as electric cars and solar panels, low-income families often do not have the means to buy new, low-emission vehicles. Rebeka Hengalová, a researcher at the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, commented for iDNES.cz.

In the Media

21. November 2024

Emissions trading will generate revenues that must be used for climate-friendly and socially responsible investments and measures. Therefore, we will have a large amount of finance available that can fund the development of public transport in places where it is inadequate, as well as its modernization elsewhere, over and above the Social Climate Fund. This is an investment in the future, it is in our interest to decarbonize and become independent of the fossil fuels we buy from (not always friendly) countries at unstable prices.

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