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Welcome to the Transport workshop!
Today’s session is pretty straightforward because the connection between cars and planes and pollution is
pretty intuitive. And luckily, there are a lot of easy actions you can adopt to reduce your emissions from your
car travel and any flights you take, that are still very impactful.
All up, this fifth session should take you a little less than an hour as a group – so make sure you have some
snacks and some comfy seats at hand, and get going!

But First! (5 minutes)
Spend 5 minutes or less having a brief chat about how you’ve all managed with your actions from the Water
session:

• Have you carried out the actions you committed to?

• What was hard?

• What do you still want to get done (and what barriers do you need to remove to do it?)

Transport — the facts (5 mins)

The manufacturing and operation Petrol cars are the biggest Air travel produces slightly less
of passenger cars uses large contributor to greenhouse gases greenhouse gases per person
amounts of non-renewable across all forms of transport than cars, but planes burn a lot
resources such as metals and in Australia. In Australia, from of fuel to cover huge distances.
fossil fuels. 1955 to 2013, private passenger This generates massive amounts
vehicle registration increased of greenhouse gases in a short
from 1.4 million to 13 million. time.

40% of Canberrans travel less Canberra’s bus fleet has racks Light rail in the ACT will also be
than 10km to work, a distance on the front of each bus to a huge bonus and will run on
easily cycled. Canberra has allow cyclists to secure their 100% renewable energy.
excellent infrastructure for bikes there and so people can
cycling and Canberrans also easily split their trip between
cycle more than residents in bussing and cycling for longer
any other state or territory. distances.

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