Decarbonising Transport in Emerging Economies

Transport accounts for a significant share of greenhouse gas emissions in emerging economies. Reducing transport GHG emissions will contribute significantly to reaching the NDCs of emerging economies and the goals of the Paris Agreement. This project is developing an evaluation framework for transport emissions tailored to each partner country. The framework allows to assess the impact of transport mitigation action up to 2050. The project is also supporting skills development to allow national stakeholders to make use of this framework for assessing transport policy strategies and reviewing their NDCs with respect to transport. Against the backdrop of climate mitigation goals, SDGs, and the New Urban Agenda, the project also evaluates the feasibility of transport policies on the local level together with the Wuppertal Institute.

Project data

Countries: Argentina, Azerbaijan, India, Morocco
IKI funding: 4,791,556.00 €
Duration: 04/2019 till 09/2024
Status: completed
Implementing organisation: International Transport Forum (ITF)
Political Partner: Ministry for Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water (METLE) - Morocco

Ministry of Transport - Argentina

Ministry of Transport - Azerbaijan

National Institution for Transforming (NITI Aayog) - India
Implementing Partner: Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy GmbH - Germany
Online: https://www.itf-oecd.org/dtee

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State of implementation/results

Project completed.
Transport and CO2 assessment frameworks have been developed for all four project countries, in cooperation with local stakeholders. Respective training sessions for local authorities have been held.
Based on these assessment frameworks, scenario analyses have been carried out to assess possible transport decarbonisation pathways that account for the characteristics of the specific country. Respective tools and publications were made available on the project website (www.itf-oecd.org/…), i.e. the DTEE Argentina Dashboard (www.itf-oecd.org/…) and scenario assessments for Argentina (www.itf-oecd.org/…); the Azerbaijan assessment tools incl. user manuals (www.itf-oecd.org/…) and related scenario assessments (www.itf-oecd.org/…); the India assessment tool and user manual (www.itf-oecd.org/…); and the assessment tools and manuals for Morocco (www.itf-oecd.org/…).
For each country, reports that outline the current specific challenges for transport decarbonisation were published by early 2021.
Project outputs were featured in several high level meetings, such as at COP26, COP27, at G20, the 2023 Clean Energy Ministerial and at the ITF’s annual summit of transport ministers in all project years.