The German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA) has released a report where it lists measures which would enable Germany to reduce its transport related CO2 emissions to the desired level in 2020 and 2030 in order to achieve the goal of a reduction of Germany´s total CO2 Emissions by 40% until 2020. It means the transport sector has to reduce the emissions by at least 40 Mio. t annually.

The proposed measures include:

- Traffic avoidance: Influencing / reducing transport demand and shortening distances.
• Modal shift: Shifting transport to more environmentally friendly modes.
• Optimising transport: Better utilisation of existing transport capacities.
• Economic measures and
• direct emission reduction on vehicles.
In line with this, the measures and instruments proposed focus on the following areas:
• Traffic-reducing through town planning and transport planning
• Promoting environmentally friendly transport modes
• Economic measures
• Measures to improve vehicle and fleet efficiency
• Consumer information and driving behaviour in road traffic

The full report in German and an summary can be downloaded here and an English summary here.