Proposed Action Plan on Transport and Climate Change: Road to Copenhagen and elsewhere

Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities Center

Proposed Action Plan on Transport and Climate Change

- Road to Copenhagen and elsewhere-

Cornie HuizengaStaff consultant ADB

Achieving Global and Local Objectives through Sustainable Transport and Land Use: an agenda for 2009

and beyond16 January, Washington DC

www.cleanairnet.org/caiasiaCAI-Asia Center

Background• Over last year several events and

processes where organizations met and expressed interest to coordinate:– At COP 13, ADB Transport Forum,

and BAQ 2008 – WB supported CAI-LAC to review

carbon financing for transport. – COP 14 in December 2008 brought

18 organizations together with support from ADB, WB and GTZ

• Increasing number of high level policy meetings and policy initiatives on transport and environment in Asia

• ADB is developing a new project under which it intends to focus on Transport and Climate Change policies. In doing so it seeks support and involvement from other organizations and has initiated formulation of this Action Plan


What if there is not more coordinated action?

• Knowledge generation will be slower• More limited knowledge transfer among various types

of organizations• Governments in developing countries confronted with

multitude of organizations wanting to do projects but not necessary policy revisions

• Follow-up to Kyoto protocol and its (new) financing modalities possibly will (again) not be very transport friendly

• Many, many cities in developing countries will not get the policy and technical guidance to re-orient their transport systems towards higher sustainability and lower energy intensity

• The introduction of low carbon sustainable transport will proceed slower


Action Plan


Conceptual Approach

Global Climate Negotiations

Regional Transport Policy/Technical

Forums

National Level Transport Policy

Local Level Transport Programs

and Projects

Influence

SupportInitiate

InfluenceFund


Avenues to pursue for bringing transport on the climate agenda -

Level When? What? Who?Policy/Politics Now! • Influence high-

level policy makers, lobbies and negotiators with a consistent message

• National governments

• Ministries• Multinational /

bilateral organisations

Climate policy Now! • Formulate realistic transport/climate policy options for Post 2012 agenda

• Climate professionals

• Transport professionals

• FoundationsLocal measures 2009-

2013• Awareness • Establish

measurement methodologies

• Collect data• Implement policy

• Development banks

• National Governments

• Local governments


Goal and Time Frame• Foster improved coordination between multilateral

development organizations, development banks, bilateral development organizations, international foundations and NGOs:– To facilitate smooth integration of climate change in their

respective transport programs– To facilitate integration of transport in their respective

climate change strategies– To enhance their effectiveness in assisting national and local

governments their actions to make transport systems in developing cities less carbon intensive and more sustainable

• Time frame 2009 -2011• Scope urban transport in developing countries


Process which led to identification of actions

• Discussions at workshops and meetings• Informal survey on future activities on Transport

and Climate• Consultations with key organizations and

individuals


Actions considered for inclusion in joint Action Plan

Knowledge generation – Harmonization of methodologies:

• Joint transport data initiative to improve accuracy, adequacy, and comparability of statistics on environment, emissions, energy, and transport

• Co-benefits assessment methodology

Climate Policies • Common policy framework on low

carbon sustainable urban transport to inform climate negotiations and regional transport policies

• Common guidelines how urban transport programs can operate best in new climate modalities such as sectoral no lose targets, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), and Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and Climate Investment Fund

Dialogues • Common dialogues with

Development Banks and other large aid providers to re-orient their (transport) assistance towards low carbon sustainable transport

• Common dialogues in support of the formulation of locally owned low carbon transport policies at regional, national and local level


Phased Approach• 2009 Activities:

– Organize 3 workshops of transport and climate change negotiation experts (March, June, August/September)

– Report on implementation of transport programs under new climate change modalities

– Common policy paper on Transport and Climate Change– Side events during pre-COP meetings in March, June and

August/September– Coordinated side-events during COP 15– Outreach activities to COP Parties and consider possible COP

Decision on Transport and Climate Change– Dialogue with at least 2 Development Banks on Transport and

Climate Change– Dialogue with at least 2 developing countries on Transport and

Climate Change policy– Participate in CSD preparatory activities for CSD 2010/11

• 2010 – 2011 Objectives: – Follow-up on COP 15, Copenhagen outcome– Harmonization of knowledge/guidelines– Continue donor and country dialogues


Organization of Action Plan


Characteristics of Action Plan• Open architecture: voluntary

coordination and cooperation• Reduce transaction costs for

stakeholders interested to initiate activities on transport and climate change

• Create synergy between activities of participating organizations

• Enables scaling up of solutions and to reduce lead-time in getting impacts

• Contribute towards creating critical mass at regional level but also within participating organizations


International and Regional Stakeholders

• Development Banks: World Bank, AsDB, AfDB, and IADB

• Regional Economic Commissions: ECA, ESCAP and ECLA

• Multilateral organizations: Global Environmental Facility, UNEP, International Energy Agency, International Transport Forum, UNDP

• Partnerships: global Transport Knowledge Partnership, Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles, Clean Air Initiatives for Asia and Latin America, UNCRD-Environmentally transport forum, UNECE/WP.29

• Bilateral Development Agencies: GTZ, Sida, USAID

• Transport Bodies: World Council on Transport Research, EAST, JTERC,

• NGOs: I-CE, ICCT, ITDP, EMBARQ Transport and Environment, IGES, TRL

• Foundations: Volvo Research and Education Foundation and FIA Foundation, Energy Foundation

• Transport operators branch organizations: UITP, UIC

• Private Sector: oil industry, vehicle manufacturers


Organizational Options to Implement Action Plan

• Existing situation with a few email groups and organizations/people meeting from time to time at workshops

• Other extreme: Formalized coordination with MOUs and with dedicated technical secretariat (either within existing organization or new organization)

or,• Suggested: Informal coordination among organizations

around a common action plan to advance the agenda on transport and climate change and local environmental concerns with a joint virtual office and a part-time, joint convener(s)

• Interested organizations to form “Global Sustainable Transport Forum or Ad-Hoc Sustainable Transport Interest Group” facilitated by e.g. ITF or other organization with relevant mandate – regional development bank(s)

• Consider by late 2009 how to continue with organizational structure and whether/how to further formalize


Responsibility for implementation of tasks

• Over 50 organizations with a mandate directly relevant to Transport and Climate Change

• Large number of organizations make day to day coordination difficult

• Actions in the Action Plan can be divided into tasks or clusters. Organizations (with staff resources and funding) volunteer to take the lead for a task or sub-task and they seek followers) other organizations who are willing to provide inputs and assistance

• Secretariat maintains overviews and provides periodic six monthly updates of task groups and their outputs

• Task groups have the possibility to report at technical meetings and organize side meetings or events


2009 Policy Meetings Relevant for Transport and Environment

Meetings• Ministerial Meeting on Energy, Environment and

Transport 15-16 January, 2009,Tokyo, Japan (G8 + Asian countries)

• World Economic Forum, Sustainable Mobility Forum

• Regional EST Forum – 24-25 February 2009• APEC Workshop on Policies that Promote Energy

Efficiency in Transport, March 24-25, 2009, Singapore

• AH-WG KP: – 29 March to 8 April in Bonn, Germany; – 1–12 June, Bonn– August/September at a venue to be

determined• AH-WG LCA

– Schedule to be set• CSD Expert Group Meeting, May 2009, New York• Follow-up to (G8) meeting on Transport, Climate

and Environment, Japan, June 2009• Clean Air Conference –Sustainable Transport,

July ?, Latin America • Forum of Asian Ministers of Transport – FAMT-

(similar to ECMT) in the second half of 2009.• Transport Ministers/Senior Transport ASEAN-

November 2009• CSD High Level meeting on Technology and

Technology Transfer, November 2009, India• COP 15, Copenhagen December 2009

Objectives – Develop strategy how to use

these new policy forums to advance Transport and Climate agenda

– Lobby with organizers to make Transport and Climate Change part of the agenda

– Request presentations which are based on “Declaration” on Transport and Climate Change

– Encourage meetings/workshops to support the “Common Policy Paper on Transport, Climate and Environment”

– Actively promote the co-benefits approach

– Coordinate attendance of key workshops and meetings


Technical Meetings on TransportMeetings• Transport Research Board (TRB)

January 2009• World Bank Transport Week, April

2009• VREF Transport meeting, April

2009• C40 Annual Meeting, Seoul• Carbon Expo –Barcelona, May 27-

29• ADB Asian Transport Forum – June

2009• TRB Committee on Transport and

Climate Change, June 2009, Seattle

• UITP World Congress and Mobility & City Transport Exhibition, 7-11 June, Vienna

• Asilomar, July 2009, California• Transport and Climate Change

workshop, WCTR, September –October Nagoya, Japan

Role in Coordination Process• Utilize meetings to have

official or informal side events to discuss progress on specific tasks from the Action Plan

• Make use of presence of experts from the Transport community to get inputs


Annual workshop on Transport and Climate Change in developing countries

• Currently there is no overarching event on sustainable urban transport and climate change in developing countries

• Objectives:– Networking event for transport experts– Policy forum with key stakeholders from

developing countries– Engage private sector– Raise the profile of sustainable transport in

developing countries• Can be held either back to back with existing

meeting or as separate meeting


Financing - Funding Consortium?• Initial funding being discussed with ADB, GTZ, Latin American GEF

project, ITDP• Do we also need some form of funding consortium to encourage and

support organizations to cooperate?• Use funding to support the functioning of task groups and informing

the COP and Transport policy processes:– Conduct studies;– Consultation meetings, e.g. country consultations– Annual Transport and Climate Change workshop (task 8)– Travel costs external experts to meetings and workshops– Awareness raising activities

• Aim for $ 10 million over 3 years. Funding to complement funding by participating organizations and not replace it

• What type of organization would be best suited to act as fund manager?

• Contributors:– Global GEF program– Development Banks– Bilateral Development Organizations– Foundations– Private sector


Next steps• Consultation on draft Action Plan continues:

– Fine tune content – Identify “founding fathers” who are wiling to commit

resources and/or lead specific tasks• Written document by end of February• Endorsement of Action Plan in March 2009 by “founding

fathers”, agreement to coordinate programming of resources

• Present Action Plan at various policy workshops from March to June

• Review Action Plan and meetings of task groups at WB Transport Forum in April 2009 and ADB Transport Forum in June 2009


Summary• To make progress in establishing a low carbon sustainable

transport system we will require more coordinated action – to guide such action we will require a coordinated Action Plan

• Failure to arrive at more coordinated Action means a slower introduction of low carbon sustainable transport

• Such an Action Plan should consist of broad-based actions across a range of themes combined with short term action to influence the climate negotiations, policy making on transport and investments in transport services

• The successful implementation of an Action Plan requires the setting up of an appropriate supportive institutional structure and will be facilitated by the availability of a common fund to leverage funding from participating organizations


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