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Title: Behavior-Based Transportation Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Under the Clean Development Mechanism: Transport-Efficient Development in Nanchang, China
Accession Number: 01126777
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: This paper proposes a methodology, consistent with the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM), to quantify the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction benefits of transport-efficient development (TED). TED aims to reduce transportation GHGs by changing urban development patterns. The Nanchang Transit-Oriented Development project in China is used to demonstrate the methodology and the possibilities for bringing such projects into the carbon market. The case illustrates the challenges of using the CDM to reduce transportation GHG emissions via TED. The proposed analytical approach, utilizing a control group, encounters difficulties with geographical control, the reliability of the statistical techniques, and challenges to calculating emissions “leakage.” These methodological difficulties also affect financial viability because of high monitoring costs and high project risks. Ultimately, the CDM executive board rejected the proposed methodology, suggesting limited possibilities for utilizing today’s carbon market to alter developing countries’ urban transportation GHG growth trajectories.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01144890
Report/Paper Numbers: 09-2864
Language: English
Authors: Zegras, P ChristopherChen, YangGrutter, Jurg MPagination: pp 38-46
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780309126281
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Public Transportation; I15: Environment
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 30 2009 7:14PM
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