Decarbonizing Transport with Andrew Salzberg, Loeb Fellow and former Head of Transportation Policy at Uber

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This week Oliver interviews Andrew Salzberg, former head of TransportationPolicy at Uber, and now a Loeb Fellow at Harvard about his work inradically decarbonising transport. Oliver worked with Andrew at Uber, andhe’s been thinking about the intersection between climate, transportationand technology longer than most. It’s a great conversation touching on thechallenge ahead and opportunities that abound.Specifically, they dig into:his work at TfL, the World Bank and Uber and then now, focussing ondecarbonising transport.the challenges and opportunities for decarbonising the transport sector,and where Micromobility might be able to helphow can these modelling exercises actually get integrated into decisionmaking processes and funded, and who in the US is talking about it.The intersection of landuse change, PT, EV’s and Micromobility and others,and how the conversation can be ‘unsiloed’Why Andrew doesn’t think that decarbonization is inevitable, but how therenewable energy sector offers instructive examples of how tech can changethe conversation.The opportunity for ‘policy feedback’ in further accelerating andratcheting up new technologies to reduce emissionshow EVTOLS/‘flying cars’ represent an asymmetric risk to overalldecarbonisation effortsEditor note: Andrew’s audio got lost towards the end, so we reverted to thebackup. Apologies.

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