A great interview with Ferdinand Balfoort focused on carbon taxation, just transitional principles, and the distribution of justice within our current global frameworks.

Follow the link to listen to the full interview!

A timely article with many fantastic points made regarding the Australian transport sector and its ability to synergise with the changing energy sector. It's critical to determine the primary energy source in the grid. Hydrogen production, electrolysis, is extremely energy intensive and tangential to what is already happening with Electric Vehicles (EV). With the level of solar, we should now be considering how our transport behaviours need to change to match the energy in production (revewables).

It's also now critical to understand the Life-Cycle (LCA) impacts of sustainable interventions (cradle-to-grave), whether they are truly positive in the long-run, and whether they are worth the resource cost to design, build, and operate. It all starts with policy. Thank you Dr. Hussein Dia, a window closing, is not a window closed and articles like this keep them wedged open!

Great to see more discourse on this topic coming through. In this case, Ferdinand Balfoort and Stephen Greaves discuss the importance of differentiating between shared and personal e-scooters 🛴 to ensure data-driven reporting of the benefits and burdens of specific classes of e-scooters 🛴.

With 2030 fast approaching the five-year mark next year, we will all need to keep an eye on supporting initiatives that could significantly reduce transport emissions.

Putting such initiatives into the "too hard" basket will not serve us well in achieving a lower emitting future for both ourselves and future generations.E-scooters, if integrated with Public Transport 🚌 🚎 🚉 could significantly reduce emissions on a per user basis. This is, of course, always subject to how well we deploy and monitor such technology solutions to avoid burdens and reap benefits.

This article and the recent Melbourne decisions, aligned with the decision by the Paris municipality in 2023, is a very timely reminder that sustainable transport solutions, including e-Scooters 🛴, should be introduced based on careful governance considerations. This includes evidence based policies and comprehensive stakeholder consultations and feedback, to ensure that the benefits and burdens are well balanced to deliver optimal levels of social justice. An additional benefit that is also not recognized is that the carbon emission reductions from shared e-Scooters 🛴 can be certified against Gold Standard methodologies.

This would result in additional revenues that could be beneficial to stakeholders and allow for a virtuous re-investment in strategies to address burdens, including safety, and in bespoke infrastructure for shared e-Scooters 🛴. The voluntary carbon credits that could be certifiable annually under Gold Standard Foundation AMS-III.BM Methodology are at this stage overlooked, due to a lack of comprehensive analysis of benefits and burdens arising from shared e-Scooters 🛴.

Great to see progress being made in the micro-mobility 🛴 🛵 space. There is still a significant level of progress that we need to make to normalise and regulate this sustainable transport system.

This will continue to be a critical step towards securing a more sustainable transport future, especially when paired with an integrated public transport 🚌 🚎 🚉 infrastructure.

Well done to Ferdinand Balfoort for their continued work in this sector 🙌 .

We look forward to posting many interviews on this topic in the near future!

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