Cities in the Netherlands want to make their air cleaner by banning fossil fuel delivery vehicles from urban
areas from 2025
The Netherlands is aware that emissions will increase by a third if online deliveries continue with fossil-fuel trucks, so that cities in this country will allow only emission-free delivery vehicles after 2025. It’s expected that 30 cities will announce their support to zero emission urban logistics by this summer.
The government is sure that the bans will save 1 megaton of CO2 every year by 2030 and is pushing this initiative by giving delivery firms cash help to buy or lease electric vehicles.
‘The agreements we are setting down will ensure that it will be a matter of course that within a few years, supermarket shelves will be stocked, waste will be collected, and packages will arrive on time, yet without any exhaust fumes and CO2 emissions’. were the Netherlands environment minister, Ms. Stientje van Veldhoven words to support this announcement.
The Netherlands claims it is the first country in the world to give its cities the freedom to implement zero-emission zones, a strategy that will contribute to improve the quality of the air and help reduce the effects of climate change caused mainly by carbon emission . Nowadays some cities in Europe have been feeling motivated for Initiatives like this and have started to implement similar actions. The Netherlands (the pioneer) is giving a good example that is worth to be followed worldwide.