The World Bank has published a working paper titled “Urban Transport and CO2 emissions: Some evidence from Chinese cities” that seeks to establish a baseline for carbon dioxide transport-related emissions in China. The report provides a preliminary analysis of urban transport characteristics, energy use and CO2 emissions for a diverse set of cities in China.
Download the report here.

The 2010 Bridging the Gap Workshop Climate Change and Development in the Transport Sector What do we need to achieve GHG mitigation from land transport? invites participants to have a closer look at tackling climate change in the land transport sector. This will include understanding the root causes for today’s climate challenges in the transport sector, what policies are needed both for short-term measures and long-term sustainable land transport in developing countries, and what role various stakeholders play for this in the process.

The workshop is targeted at transport and policy experts, decision-makers in transport and urban planning, practitioners and academics of public policy from Germany, Asia, and beyond. A number of prominent public policy figures and leaders from Asia and the world are invited to address and debate with the audience. In order to register, please email Miss Ruth Mellonat (rmellon@trl.co.uk).

• For more information on content and location please consult the program here.

The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) submitted by non-Annex I country Parties to the UNFCCC by the 31st of January were published on 2nd February 2010. The Bridging the Gap Initiative is analysing these submissions from a transport perspective. After a first view 11 out of the 20 Parties that made submissions made direct reference to the transport sector (inlc. E.g. Costa Rica, Indonesia, Singapore, Jordan, Republic of Congo, Moroco et. al.). The analysis will be available in the next few days.
For more information see transport2012.org

The Copenhagen Accord allows developing country parties to submit Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) i.e. low carbon policies to Annex 2 of the Accord until January 31. The Bridging the Gap Initiative has now published a guidance document for parties on transport NAMAs.

Download on the Bridging the Gap-Webpage

On Friday, January 15, 2010, 180 transport and climate change experts from local and national governments, multi-lateral development agencies, academic institutions, nonprofits and private companies gathered in Washington, D.C. to discuss “Next Steps After Copenhagen: Opportunities and Challenges in the Transport Sector” as part of the annual Transforming Transportation conference.

Download Key Messages here