CARBON EMISSION STRATEGY IMMINENT

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in South Africa has set an end-of-year deadline for the launch of a working model of its freight transport study. Speaking at the annual Transport Forum in Cape Town last week, WWF national climate change officer, Louise Naude, said that research had revealed the origins of the majority of freightrelated emissions. The model that has been developed attempts to represent the decision about mode choice made by logistics suppliers, operators and cargo owners, and how these may respond to a range of measures, she added. “Ultimately the aim of the organisation is to see how we can reduce freight emissions. One of the most obvious ways we have identified is to move some cargo back to rail,” she said.