The flagship 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.The 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.The report 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. The 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. 'Turning the Right Corner - Ensuring Development Through a Low Carbon Transport Sector' will be of interest to policy makers in developed and developing countries, as well as decision-makers and think-tanks, wishing to gain deeper understanding on the part played by the transport sector in mitigating climate change and achieving sustainable development.

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Turning the right corner : ensuring development through a low carbon transport sector

Kopp, Andreas; Block, Rachel I.; Iimi, Atsushi

Andreas Kopp, Rachel I. Block, Atsushi Limi

The World Bank Group

Directions in development, environment and sustainable development, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia, 2013

Online access: World Bank World Bank Open Knowledge Repository, 2013

Directions in development (Washington, D.C.), Washington, D.C, ©2013

Directions in Development, Washington, cop. 2013

United States, United States of America

1, 2013-05-29

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Includes bibliographical references.

Transport provides access to public services for the poor, opens up trade opportunities, and maximizes the benefits of urbanization: the mobility of people and goods drives development. So how can we protect the role of transport in times of scarcer fuels, costly and harmful carbon emissions, and the rising threat of extreme weather events? This is the central question that this book seeks to answer. Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector finds that adopting new vehicle technologies and alternative fuels will not be enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions from transport: new patterns of mobility will also be needed. In developing countries where past infrastructure investments have not yet locked in particular transport modes, there is an opportunity to contain emissions by harnessing low-emission modes of transport. The book argues that the transition to low-carbon mobility is not only urgently needed if economies are to avoid becoming locked into high-carbon growth, but is also affordable. It outlines how countries can combine policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with broader sector reforms that generate new fiscal resources to finance the transition in addition to carbon financing and international assistance. Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector will be of interest to policy makers, academics, and development practitioners with an interest in transport. It will help decision makers better understand how to contain the transport sector's contribution to climate change and protect transport infrastructure and services from severe weather events.

<p>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.<br></p>

A diferencia de lo que ha ocurrido en otros sectores, el reconocimiento de las consecuencias del cambio climático en el transporte ha sido lento. Las políticas dirigidas a orientar la demanda hacia modalidades y tecnologías con bajas emisiones deben formar parte de los programas y proyectos de inversiÃ3n. Dichas políticas pueden reducir la demanda de transporte en el largo plazo al modificar la geografía econÃ3mica de las ciudades y los países. Pero para que esto ocurra, se requiere una estrecha coordinaciÃ3n de las políticas de transporte, medio ambiente y salud. En este informe se pone de manifiesto que las políticas relativas al cambio climático en el contexto del transporte se han visto afectadas por la desconexiÃ3n entre la formulaciÃ3n e implementaciÃ3n de las políticas de infraestructura y en materia ambiental. Se han centrado en aumentar la capacidad de la infraestructura para adoptar modalidades con bajas emisiones y en establecer la normativa. Sin embargo, mientras menor es la coordinaciÃ3n horizontal entre las políticas sobre oferta y sobre demanda, mayor es la incertidumbre acerca de cÃ3mo se pueden reducir realmente las emisiones. Las amplias reformas sectoriales propuestas en este informe hacen necesaria una coordinaciÃ3n horizontal no solo entre los diferentes aspectos de la formulaciÃ3n de políticas de transporte, sino también entre departamentos tan diferentes como los de finanzas, regulaciÃ3n del uso de la tierra, seguridad y salud.

The flagship 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. The 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

Emphasises 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.

Overview : transport efficiency promotes development and protects the environment
Transport, mobility, emissions, and development
Avoiding future disruption of services
Integrating sector-wide reforms for mitigation
Climate-resilient investment in transport.

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