September 1, 2022 - Getting on your bike makes a significant impact on carbon emissions to help tackle the climate crisis says research from the University of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit.
Swapping the car for a bike or e-bike for just one day a week – or going from ‘not cycling’ to ‘cycling’ – drastically lowers mobility-related lifecycle CO2. People who cycle have 84% lower CO2 emissions from all daily travel than car drivers further demonstrating benefits of active travel.
According to the research which surveyed 2,000 people, cycling is 10 times more important for reaching net-zero cities than electric cars.
Published in the journal Global Environmental Change, this is the first study of the carbon-reducing impact of city-based lifestyle changes and it reveals that increases in active mobility significantly lower carbon footprints, even in urban European contexts with a high incidence of walking and cycling.
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