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Table 1.4 Ground transport fuels, consumption and GHG emissions

City Gasoline Diesel City transport National transport

consumption, consumption, tCO2e per capita CO2 emissions,

ML ML tCO2e per capita

Bangkok 2,741 2,094 2.27 0.76

Barcelona 209 266 0.77 2.39

Cape Town 1,249 724 1.44 0.94

Denver 1,234 197 6.31 5.56

Geneva 260 51 1.85 2.21

London 1,797 1,238 1.22 2.04

Los Angeles 14,751 3,212 4.92 5.56

New York City 4,179 657 1.53 5.56

Prague 357 281 1.44 1.71

Toronto 6,691 2,011 4.05 4.86

Source : Based on Kennedy et al. (2009) and IEA (2010a).

Figure 1.16 Harlow, UK. Often it is the small-scale road building, undertaken time and time again, surrounded
by a low quality urban fabric, which can only be reached by the car, that makes our cities and
urban areas unattractive - and the resulting transport CO2 emissions very problematic. This type
of development cannot be continued if climate change is to be taken seriously.