Route of all good - From carbon credits to cutting speed limits, there could be a lot more to reducing CO{sub}2 than what goes on under car bonnets

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WHICH OF THESE will save the world? Speed cameras on every road. A gauge on every dashboard showing real-time exhaust emissions. A market in which car makers buy and sell carbon quotas. These are suggestions from academics, specialists and policy pundits to help stop climate change. Can they be serious? They certainly are. The policies have been selected by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, from more than 30 submitted, as worthy of consideration. The UK government aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent by 2050 and road transport contributes around a quarter of CO{sub}2. So slash vehicle carbon emissions and our culpability for global warming will be similarly reduced.