MUSCAT: The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, organized the Green Mobility Forum under the auspices of Engineer Salim bin Nasser al Aufi, Minister of Energy and Minerals, on Monday.
Speaking at the event, Engineer Khamis bin Mohammed al Shammakhi, Under-secretary of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology for Transport, said that the ministry seeks to achieve zero carbon neutrality on the transport field in implementation of the Royal directives of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik designating the year 2050 as the deadline for realizing zero carbon neutrality in the Sultanate of Oman. This goal can be achieved by utilizing clean technology for sustainable development and creating a diverse mix of clean energy sources.
Al Shammakhi noted that the ministry is working on 3 phases to attain carbon neutrality. The first stage aims to encourage electric vehicles, the use of hydrogen for heavy transport and trucks and the use of biofuels. The second phase aims to expedite the ministry’s efforts with partners to increase the number of environmentally-friendly vehicles, enabling the use of sustainable aircraft fuel, providing smart mobility services, establishing a regional centre for supplying ships with green fuel, reducing carbon emission at the ports, upgrading existing fuel stations to introduce hydrogen fuel and electric chargers and linking public transport to the metro scheme within Muscat Governorate.
The ministry is working on a number of initiatives that include: the Leadership by Example, an initiative that would contribute to enabling the private sector to adopt electric vehicles, Enabling Hydrogen Trucks initiative, the Smart Tracking of Land and Public Transport initiative, the Artificial Intelligence initiative and the Electric Chargers Network initiative, the official concluded.
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