- This document sets the transport ministry's strategy to contribute to economic development, build a safe, efficient, reliable, affordable transport system, and thus drives the goals of the National Transport Master Plan 2050. It also complements the ministry's Environmental Implementation Plan 2015-2020. Objectives of the document include the following: Enabling the transport sector to contribute its fair share to the national effort to combat climate change in a balanced fashion, taking into account the DoT and the sector’s primary responsibility of promoting the development of the efficient integrated transport systems to enable sustainable socio-economic development;
- Promoting behavioural changes towards sustainable mobility alternatives through information, education and awareness raising;
- Engaging the low carbon transition of the sector, to assist with the aligning and developing of policies which promote energy efficiency and emission control measures in all transport modes;
- Minimising the adverse effects of transport activities on the environment; and
- Facilitating the sector’s just transition to climate resilient transport system and infrastructure.
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The vision of the GTS is to substantially reduce GHG emissions and other environmental impacts from the transport sector by 5% by 2050.
Transport, Target year: 2050NDC commits S.A. to peak emissions at a specific range between 2025 and 2050.
Economy-wide, Target year: 20302009 pledge to reduce emissions 34% by 2020 and 42% by 2025.
Economy-wide, Target year: 2025Note
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