Journal article
Offshoring emissions through used vehicle exports
- Abstract:
- Policies to reduce transport emissions often overlook the international flow of used vehicles. We quantify the rate at which used vehicles generated CO2 and pollution for all used vehicles exported from Great Britain—a globally leading used vehicle exporter—across 2005–2021. Destined for low–middle-income countries, exported vehicles fail roadworthiness standards and, even under extremely optimistic ‘functioning-as-new’ assumptions, generate at least 13–53% more emissions than scrapped or on-road vehicles.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1038/s41558-024-01943-1
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- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Journal:
- Nature Climate Change More from this journal
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 238–241
- Publication date:
- 2024-02-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-01-26
- DOI:
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1758-6798
- ISSN:
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1758-678X
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1620602
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pubs:1620602
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2024-02-20
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- Newman et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2024
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- © The Author(s) 2024, corrected publication 2024. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
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- A correction to this article is available online from Springer Nature at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01965-9
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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