Low Carbon Transport in Asia : Strategies for Optimizing Co-Benefits (2012, Paperback) read ebook TXT, DOC
9781844079155 English 1844079155 Developing Asia is at a crossroads. Over the next few decades, the region's policymakers could formulate transport strategies that promote fuel-efficient vehicles, modern public transport, and sustainable land use planning or become locked into inefficient vehicles, energy-intensive infrastructure, and suburban sprawl. The path taken will have implications inside and outside Asia, and it will depend upon the extent to which co-benefits are incorporated into a range of decision-making processes. Integrating co-benefits into transport decisions can help determine which policy options mitigate greenhouse gases (GHGs) while improving local air quality, commuting times, and energy security. Factoring in both climate change and development co-benefits can allay concerns over GHG mitigation costs or bring carbon finance to development needs. But it can also present decision-makers unaccustomed to optimizing multiple benefits with unique technical, financial, and institutional challenges. This book represents a pioneering effort to identify and remove these barriers, thereby making it easier for Asia to take the low carbon path. The book's first section presents analytical frameworks to classify transport strategies with co-benefits, offering new findings on black carbon and dieselization. The second section grounds the analytic work in case studies on fuel switching in Pakistan, urban planning in Bandung, congestion charges in Beijing, vehicle restraints in Hanoi, and bus rapid transit in Jakarta. A final section examines how the future climate regime can enable low carbon transport in Asia. This book is essential reading for policymakers, planners, and researchers concerned with transport, climate change, and development in Asia and the wider world. Book jacket., Without the effective participation of developing Asia, a climate crisis is certain. Within developing Asia, the key to averting such a crisis lies in low carbon transport. China, India and Asia's other emerging economies could promote fuel efficient vehicles, public transport, and sustainable urban planning. Or they could become locked into inefficient vehicles, energy intensive infrastructure, and suburban sprawl. The path they choose will have long-term implications for the entire world. And it will depend upon the extent to which they adopt a co-benefit approach. A co-benefit approach involves recognizing that some transport policies mitigate greenhouse gases while simultaneously improving urban air quality, commuting times and energy security. Accounting for these additional benefits can overcome a reluctance to bear the costs of climate actions. But it also presents unique technical, financial, and institutional challenges to decision-makers unaccustomed to optimizing multiple benefits. The book represents a pioneering effort to identify and remove barriers to a co-benefit approach in developing Asia's transport sector. The introductory section makes the case for co-benefits in developing Asia's transport sector. The second section features analytical frameworks to identify strategies with potential co-benefits, offering new findings on black carbon and dieselization. The third section grounds the analytic work in case studies on fuel switching in Pakistan, urban planning in Bandung, Indonesia, congestion charges in Beijing, vehicle restraints in Hanoi and bus rapid transit in Jakarta. A final section examines whether a post-2012 climate regime can help transform a rapidly motorizing Asia into a low carbon Asia. This book is essential reading for transport policy makers, planners, and researchers concerned with low carbon transport, climate change and development in Asia and the wider world.
9781844079155 English 1844079155 Developing Asia is at a crossroads. Over the next few decades, the region's policymakers could formulate transport strategies that promote fuel-efficient vehicles, modern public transport, and sustainable land use planning or become locked into inefficient vehicles, energy-intensive infrastructure, and suburban sprawl. The path taken will have implications inside and outside Asia, and it will depend upon the extent to which co-benefits are incorporated into a range of decision-making processes. Integrating co-benefits into transport decisions can help determine which policy options mitigate greenhouse gases (GHGs) while improving local air quality, commuting times, and energy security. Factoring in both climate change and development co-benefits can allay concerns over GHG mitigation costs or bring carbon finance to development needs. But it can also present decision-makers unaccustomed to optimizing multiple benefits with unique technical, financial, and institutional challenges. This book represents a pioneering effort to identify and remove these barriers, thereby making it easier for Asia to take the low carbon path. The book's first section presents analytical frameworks to classify transport strategies with co-benefits, offering new findings on black carbon and dieselization. The second section grounds the analytic work in case studies on fuel switching in Pakistan, urban planning in Bandung, congestion charges in Beijing, vehicle restraints in Hanoi, and bus rapid transit in Jakarta. A final section examines how the future climate regime can enable low carbon transport in Asia. This book is essential reading for policymakers, planners, and researchers concerned with transport, climate change, and development in Asia and the wider world. Book jacket., Without the effective participation of developing Asia, a climate crisis is certain. Within developing Asia, the key to averting such a crisis lies in low carbon transport. China, India and Asia's other emerging economies could promote fuel efficient vehicles, public transport, and sustainable urban planning. Or they could become locked into inefficient vehicles, energy intensive infrastructure, and suburban sprawl. The path they choose will have long-term implications for the entire world. And it will depend upon the extent to which they adopt a co-benefit approach. A co-benefit approach involves recognizing that some transport policies mitigate greenhouse gases while simultaneously improving urban air quality, commuting times and energy security. Accounting for these additional benefits can overcome a reluctance to bear the costs of climate actions. But it also presents unique technical, financial, and institutional challenges to decision-makers unaccustomed to optimizing multiple benefits. The book represents a pioneering effort to identify and remove barriers to a co-benefit approach in developing Asia's transport sector. The introductory section makes the case for co-benefits in developing Asia's transport sector. The second section features analytical frameworks to identify strategies with potential co-benefits, offering new findings on black carbon and dieselization. The third section grounds the analytic work in case studies on fuel switching in Pakistan, urban planning in Bandung, Indonesia, congestion charges in Beijing, vehicle restraints in Hanoi and bus rapid transit in Jakarta. A final section examines whether a post-2012 climate regime can help transform a rapidly motorizing Asia into a low carbon Asia. This book is essential reading for transport policy makers, planners, and researchers concerned with low carbon transport, climate change and development in Asia and the wider world.