[sustran] A broader debate on Transport and Climate Change for Asia

[Bert Fabian]

Apologies for cross-posting...
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Dear All,
 
The transport sector is expected to be one of the fastest growing 
sectors in terms of CO2 emissions in Asia. Over the past few months 
CAI-Asia has had discussions with ADB and a range of other stakeholders 
on how to develop a more broad based discussion on Climate and Transport 
in Asia.  This has resulted in the attached note which suggests that to 
advance the transport debate and action on the ground it is important to 
deal with carbon in transport in an integrated manner. Current available 
experience indicates that any effective strategy to reduce CO2 emissions 
from the transport sector in Asia will need to be an integrated strategy 
with multiple objectives whereby CO2 emission reduction is one of the 
objectives. Other important objectives include: air quality, congestion, 
road safety, fuel  security, fuel prices and general quality of urban life.
 
It is suggested to focus on three main areas
 
   1. Measurement of carbon
   2. Interventions
   3. Process

The "process" part of the document suggests to make use of three events 
in 2008 to structure the debate on Climate and Transport in Asia:

    * The ADB Transport forum in Manila in the week of  9 September
    * The Better Air Quality (BAQ) 2008 workshop in Bangkok from 12-14 
November
    * COP 14 in Poznan, Poland  1-12 December

After these three events a decision is to be taken on how to continue 
and possibly institutionalize the debate.
 
The attached note proposes the implementation of a number of 
think-pieces to advance the discussion. The choice of the topics of the 
think pieces has not been finalized. We welcome suggestions for 
alternative topics. We also welcome statements of interest from persons 
or organizations who would like to involved in composing the think 
pieces. It is expected that about 2-3 weeks will be available for 
drafting these short pieces (10-15 pages) and authors should be 
available to participate in at least 2 of the the 3 key events 
(Transport Forum, BAQ and COP).  If interested send your cv and short 
statement of interest indicating which think piece you are interested in 
to bert.fabian at cai-asia.org and cornie.huizenga at cai.asia.org.
 
In discussing this note please send your comments to this newsgroup or 
to Bert and me directly.
 
Looking forward to hear from you.
 
Cornie
 
-- 
Cornie Huizenga
Executive Director
CAI-Asia Center
www://cleanairnet.org/caiasia
cornie.huizenga at cai-asia.org

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