Steve Winkelman Presents at 10th Biennial "Asilomar" Conference on Transportation and Environmental Policy Steve Winkelman shared lessons on transportation and the CDM at this invitation-only conference organized by University California, Davis under the auspices of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. He presented the findings from the Center's Chile Project, discussed the major obstacles facing transportation CDM projects and thoughts on how transportation emissions and sustainable development can be effectively addressed in the post-2012 timeframe. Download Presentation Getting on Track: The Path for Transportation in the CDM This report concludes a 3 year study on Transportation and the CDM in Santiago, Chile. Download Executive Summary Download Final Report

While domestic transportation policy has long been the focus of the transportation team, in recent years we have begun to feed into the Center's broader work in the area of international policy.
Much like the state program, our work in this area includes analysis, dialogue and education.

KEY PROJECTS

Getting on Track: The path for Transportation in the CDM

This report synthesizes the findings of a study undertaken by the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP), Climate Change and Development Consultants (CC&D) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). This work was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), in cooperation with a number of government agencies in Chile, principally Transantiago.

The project examined possible scenarios for using the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a tool to promote sustainable development in Chile's transportation sector. Mobility challenges, strong modeling capacity, commitment to CDM, and excellent data sets all made Chile an ideal location in which to test transportation solutions.

• To order a hard copy of the report or for more details including past presentations, please visit the project team's website at: http://www.iisd.org/climate/global/ctp.asp

Develop Sectoral Approaches to Reducing Developing Country Transportation GHG Emissions
Drawing upon the lessons learned in our Chile project, and in conjunction with the Future Actions Dialogue (see International Program Description), the transportation team will develop a white paper on policy-based and sectoral approaches to reducing transportation GHG emissions.

• To view our presentation Transportation, the CDM & Beyond at the November FAD meeting, please follow go to: http://www.ccap.org/international/nov04.htm

The white paper will include case studies such as fuel economy standards in Mexico, and comprehensive land use and bus rapid transit policies in Santiago, Chile. We hope to present these findings at the COP 11/MOP 1 in Montreal, Quebec Canada in December 2005.

The CDM was designed to address specific projects with quantifiable and verifiable GHG reductions. Yet, the project-based approach may miss many important transportation emissions reductions opportunities, because transportation sector emissions come from many small sources (i.e., individual vehicles), CDM project impacts will be small unless many vehicles (or liters of fuel or passengers) are impacted. Passenger vehicle fuel economy programs (numerical standards, voluntary targets, or fiscal incentives) can be a very efficient way to address a major share of the passenger vehicle fleet. But policy-based approaches do not fit easily into the current project-oriented CDM framework.

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