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Bridging the Gap: NAMA submissions
The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) submitted by non-Annex I country Parties to the UNFCCC had an initial deadline of 31st of January but are continuing to be submitted. There have now been 43 submissions and 28 of these make direct reference to the transport sector. The Bridging the Gap Initiative has analysed these submissions from a transport perspective.
Reducing Emissions through Sustainable Transport (REST)
Proposal for a sectoral approach as a means to increase the potential for GHG mitigation in the land transport sectors of both developed and developing countries.
Reducing Transport Greenhouse Gas Emissions
This document provides a brief update of GHG emission trends from the transport sector and discusses the outcome of the United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change held in December 2009 in Copenhagen. It is based on material collected for the OECD-ITF Joint Transport Research Committee's Working Group report on GHG emission reduction strategies which will be released in 2010.
Copenhagen Accord NAMA Submissions: Implications for the Transport Sector
This paper provides a brief overview of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) submissions made by developing countries as of 4 February 2010. Since February 1 submissions are added to the UNFCCC website every day and a number of Parties have stated an "intention‟ to do so. The current fluidity of the process means that the website should be referred to for updates, although to date 25 countries have submitted NAMA actions, and 35 developed countries submitted national pledges to cut and limit greenhouse gases (GHGs) by 2020. These countries collectively account for more than 78% of global emissions from energy use.
Submission to the UNFCCC on the development of standardised baselines
The Transport Research Foundation has made a the submission on behalf of the Bridging the Gap Initiative with endorsement from the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) on "the modalities and procedures for the development of standardised baselines that are broadly applicable, while providing for a high level of environmental integrity and taking into account specific national circumstances". The submission provides recommendations for methods of standardisation which can help improve the efficiency, applicability and environmental integrity of CDM in the transport sector.
A city-wide approach to carbon finance (incl. transport)
Less than 1% of projects registered with the CDM are credited to cities, among which are two transport projects. In contrast to that, cities are recognized leaders in mitigating GHG emissions. However, there are numerous reasons for the limited experience of cities in developing carbon finance projects. In this recent publication of the World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit, a city-wide approach to carbon finance is outlined. It proposes expansion of the CDM's Programme of Activities approach to enable aggregation of city-based GHG mitigation reductions broadly covered by five sectors: energy, transport, solid waste, water and wastewater, and urban forestry. The approach presented in this document refers extensively to CDM methodologies and is limited in terms of the sector-specific non-CDM methodologies available to estimate emission reductions. However, this approach could help to make transport projects more interesting and it could be expanded to include innovative interventions and new methods to calculate emission reductions including new transport methodologies.
The full report is available free of charge on the website of the World Bank.
