As If Kyoto Mattered: The Clean Development Mechanism and Transportation

This paper describes how the transportation industry is a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the most rapidly growing anthropogenic source. In the future, the developing world will account for the largest share of transport GHG increases. Four basic components drive transportation energy consumption and GHG emissions: Activities (A), Mode Share (S), Fuel Intensity (I) and Fuel Choice (ASIF). Currently, the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) serves as the main international market-based tool designed to reduce GHG emissions from the developing world. Theoretically, the CDM has the dual purpose of helping developing countries achieve “sustainable development” goals and industrialized countries meet their Kyoto emissions reductions commitments. This paper reviews overall CDM activities and transportation CDM activities to date and then presents findings from three case studies of transportation CDM possibilities examined with the ASIF framework in Santiago de Chile. The analysis suggests that bus technology switch (I) provides a fairly good for the CDM, while options aimed at inducing mode share (S) to bicycle, or modifying travel demand via land use changes (ASI) face considerable challenges. The implications of the findings for the CDM and the “post-Kyoto” world are discussed.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

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  69363 Lyon cedex 07,   France 
• Authors:
  • Zegras, P Christopher
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 49p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Clean fuels; Exhaust gases; Greenhouse gases; Land use planning; Modal split; Pollutants; Sustainable development
• Identifier Terms: Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Uncontrolled Terms: Clean development mechanism
• Geographic Terms: Kyoto (Japan)
• Subject Areas: Environment; Transportation (General); I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01126662
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 17 2009 9:56AM