Turning the Right Corner : Ensuring Development through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector

This report 'Turning the right corner - ensuring development through a low carbon transport sector' emphasizes that developing countries need to transition to a low carbon transport sector now to avoid locking themselves into an unsustainable and costly future. Furthermore, it argues that this transition can be affordable if countries combine policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with broader sector reforms aimed at reducing local air pollution, road safety risks, and congestion. This report looks at relationships between mobility, low carbon transport and development, drawing attention to the inertia in transport infrastructure. It complements the analysis by reviewing how climate change is likely to affect operations and infrastructure, cost-effective measures for minimizing negative effects, and policies and decision frameworks. It further highlights current and projected research findings and examples from developing countries. And it concludes that new technology is not enough, and that urgent action is needed before economies become locked into high-carbon growth. It discusses how to reconcile development with the need to curb emissions, looking at three sets of instruments and their limitations: new technologies and alternative fuels, supply-side measures, and demand-side policies. This report also looks at both available funding, such as carbon financing and international assistance, and at ways to generate new resources, considering that accounting for negative externalities dramatically alters the economics of transport investment.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Kopp, Andreas, Block, Rachel I., Limi, Atsushi
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2013-05-29
Subjects:	ABATEMENT COST, ABATEMENT COSTS, ACCESS TO FINANCING, ACCESS TO FINANCING RESOURCES, AGRICULTURAL EMISSIONS, AIR, AIR CONDITIONING, AIR POLLUTANT, AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS, AIR TRANSPORT, AIRCRAFT, ALLOCATION, AMAZON DEFORESTATION, AMAZON RAINFOREST, ANNUAL EMISSIONS, ANNUAL GLOBAL EMISSIONS, ATLANTIC FOREST, ATMOSPHERE, BIKE LANE, BIOMASS, BULLET TRAIN, BUS, BUSES, CAPITAL SUBSIDIES, CARBON, CARBON ABATEMENT, CARBON BALANCE, CARBON CONTENT, CARBON CREDITS, CARBON DIOXIDE, CARBON EMISSIONS, CARBON ENERGY, CARBON EQUIVALENT, CARBON FINANCE, CARBON INTENSITY, CARBON INVENTORIES, CARBON LEAKAGE, CARBON MARKET, CARBON MITIGATION, CARBON PRICE, CARBON STOCK, CARBON STOCKS, CARBON TECHNOLOGIES, CARBON UPTAKE, CARS, CH4, CHANGES IN LAND USE, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CO, CO2, COGENERATION, COMBUSTION, CONGESTION, COST OF TRANSPORT, DEFORESTATION, DEFORESTATION RATES, DEGRADED FORESTS, DIESEL, DISCOUNT RATE, EARTH SUMMIT, ECONOMIC ANALYSES, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, ECONOMIC BENEFITS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC INCENTIVE, ECONOMIC MODEL, ELECTRIC LIGHTING, ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICITY CONSERVATION, ELECTRICITY GENERATION, EMISSION, EMISSION INTENSITY, EMISSION REDUCTION, EMISSION REDUCTION POTENTIAL, EMISSION REDUCTIONS, EMISSION SOURCES, EMISSIONS, EMISSIONS FROM AGRICULTURE, EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION, EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORT, EMISSIONS MITIGATION, EMISSIONS PROFILE, EMISSIONS REDUCTION, ENERGY CONSERVATION, ENERGY DEMAND, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES, ENERGY MIX, ENERGY PLANNING, ENERGY PRODUCTION, ENERGY USE, ETHANOL, FEASIBILITY, FINANCIAL INCENTIVES, FINANCIAL MECHANISM, FINANCIAL RESOURCES, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, FOREST, FOREST CLEARING, FOREST COVER, FOREST PLANTATIONS, FOREST PROTECTION, FOREST RECOVERY, FOREST RESERVES, FOREST RESTORATION, FORESTRY, FORESTRY ACTIVITIES, FORESTS, FOSSIL FUEL, FOSSIL FUEL CONSUMPTION, FOSSIL FUELS, FOSSIL-FUEL EMISSIONS, FREIGHT, FREIGHT TRANSPORT, FUEL COMBUSTION, FUEL CONSERVATION, FUEL CONSUMPTION, FUEL PRODUCTION, FUEL SUBSTITUTION, FUEL SWITCHING, FUELS, GASES, GASOLINE, GASOLINE CONSUMPTION, GENERATION CAPACITY, GHG, GREENHOUSE, GREENHOUSE GAS, GRID CONNECTION, HFCS, INCOME, INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT, IRON, LAND FOR AGRICULTURE, LAND OWNERSHIP, LAND USE, LAND-USE CHANGE, LANDFILL, LANDFILL GAS, LANDFILL METHANE, LEVEL OF EMISSIONS, LIQUID WASTE, LIVESTOCK ACTIVITIES, LIVESTOCK EMISSIONS, LOW CARBON TECHNOLOGIES, LOW CARBON VEHICLE, LOW-CARBON, LOWER CARBON EMISSIONS, MARGINAL ABATEMENT, MARGINAL ABATEMENT COST, MASS TRANSIT, MASS TRANSPORTATION, METHANE, METHANE EMISSIONS, MITIGATION POTENTIAL, MOBILITY, MODAL SHIFT, N2O, NATIONAL EMISSION, NATIONAL EMISSIONS, NATURAL GAS, NATURAL RESOURCES, NEGATIVE IMPACTS, NITROGEN, NITROUS OXIDE, OIL, OIL PRICE, OIL PRICES, PASSENGER TRAINS, PASSENGERS, PERFLUOROCARBON, PFCS, POWER GENERATION, PRICE DISTORTIONS, RAIL, RAIL TRANSIT, RAILWAY, RAILWAYS, RAINFALL, RAPID TRANSIT, REFINERIES, REGIONAL TRANSPORT, RENEWABLE ENERGY, RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES, ROAD, ROADS, SANITATION, SCENARIOS, SF6, SOIL CARBON, SOLAR ENERGY, SPILLOVER EFFECTS, SUGAR CANE, SULFUR, SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE, SUPPLY SIDE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, TAX, TEMPERATURE, THERMAL POWER, TOTAL EMISSIONS, TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT MEASURES, TRANSIT OPTIONS, TRANSPARENCY, TRANSPORT DEMAND, TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY, TRANSPORT ENERGY CONSUMPTION, TRANSPORT MEASURES, TRANSPORT MODES, TRANSPORT PLAN, TRANSPORT SECTOR, TRANSPORT SECTOR EMISSIONS, TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, TRAVEL DEMAND, TRUCKS, URBAN TRANSPORT, URBAN TRANSPORTATION, VEHICLE OWNERS, VEHICLES, WASTE MANAGEMENT, WIND, WIND ENERGY, WIND-ENERGY,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17782806/turning-right-corner-ensuring-development-through-low-carbon-transport-sector https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13838
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