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Copenhagen Accord
The Copenhagen Accord is the document that delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) agreed to "take note of" at the final plenary session of the Conference on 18 December 2009 (COP-15). It is a draft COP decision and, when approved, is operational immediately.
NAMAs and the Carbon Market
In the most recent UNEP Perspectives Series, Christian Ellermann from Ecofys recently published a study on sectoral no-lose targets in urban transport. The case study focuses on a recent project of Ecofys and the Energy Research Institute exploring the opportunities for baseline development and definition of reduction targets in Beijing's transport system.
Article in Ville, rail & transports
The French transport magazine, Ville, rail & transports, published an opinions page of Veolia's CEO Cyrille du Peloux about the messages of the Bridging the gap initiative.
Towards Technology Transfer in the Transport Sector
The Transport Section of GTZ has analyzed the 51 transport chapters out of 71 Technology Need Assessments (TNA), available on the UNFCCC webpage. They were submitted mainly between 2000 and 2005. The analysis gives interesting insights: Other than the TNA Handbook suggests, not only "hard", vehicle-related technologies, but public transport and urban planning skills play an important role for a sustainable, low carbon development in developing countries. The short paper also suggests how to best consider transport in TNAs. And check your countries performance and needs! Download the 4-page fact-sheet here.
Applicability of post 2012 climate instruments to transport
The post 2012 Climate Instruments in the transport sector (CITS) project implemented by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), in cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is a first step to help ensure that the transport sector can benefit from the revised/new climate change mitigation instruments under a post-2012 Climate Change Agreement. The CITS project is a contribution to the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport. A draft report has been published for comments.
GTZ Module on "Adapting Urban Transport to Climate Change"
Many transport decision-makers in developing countries are already confronted with extreme weather events, such as flooding, subsidence and storms, all of which are expected to increase with climate change. In the worst case, transportation systems may not be able to recover between such events, resulting in exponential damages.
