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Big increase in Irish road transport pollution
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IRELAND'S ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency reported last week that greenhouse gas emissions from road transport have risen by 165% since 1990this increase was partly fuelled by the rising volume of road freight.
The increase in pollution from road transport comes against a background of an overall fall of 0.8% in Ireland's total greenhouse gas emissions between 2005 and 2006, mainly because of a fall in gases produced by the country's power stations.
Since 1990 Ireland's economy has been one of the fastest growing in the world, which has made cutting emissions all the more difficult as there is a trend for larger vehicles, an increased reliance on private cars and more business for hauliers.
In the 1990s the UK experienced a similar pattern of falling greenhouse gases generally, but an increase in those generated by road transport. Between 1990 and 2005 total UK greenhouse gas emissions fell 9.3% to 733.4 million tonnes, while the road and communications sector saw a 61.3% rise.
However, since 2000 road transport emissions in the UK have stabilised.