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This book provides a guide for transport policymakers and planners on achieving low-carbon land transport systems and describes possible measures for reducing emissions. Based on wide ranging research, case studies from developed and developing countries and an overview of policy scenarios, the book presents a toolbox for decision-makers with a huge variety of measures which can be tailored to their specific circumstances. It also addresses the question of how policies can be bundled successfully and integrated in urban transport decision-making and planning. Practical information is given on how greenhouse gas savings are measured as well as success factors for implementing policies and measures in complex decision-making processes.
Verpasste Chancen beim Bundesverkehrswegeplan : vor der Einführung der Strategischen Umweltprüfung
(2004)
Chancen für eine umweltverträglichere Mobilität : was kann die Strategische Umweltprüfung leisten?
(2004)
Innovation and diffusion of car-sharing for sustainable consumption and production of urban mobility
(2008)
The objective of analytical strategic environmental assessment (ANSEA) is to provide a decision-centred approach to the SEA process. The ANSEA project evolved from the realisation that, in many cases, SEA, as currently practised, is not able to ensure an appropriate integration of environmental values. The focus of SEA is on predicting impacts, but the tool takes no account of the decision-making processes it is trying to influence. At strategic decision-making levels, in turn, it is often difficult to predict impacts with the necessary exactitude. The decision-making sciences could teach some valuable lessons here. Instead of focusing on the quantitative prediction of environmental consequences, the ANSEA approach concentrates on the integration of environmental objectives into decision-making processes. Thus, the ANSEA approach provides a framework for analysing and assessing the decision-making processes of policies, plans and programmes (PPP). To enhance environmental integration into the decision-making process, decision windows (DW) can be identified. The approach is designed to be objective and transparent to ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account, or - from an ex-post perspective - to allow an evaluation of how far environmental considerations have been integrated into the decision-making process under assessment. The paper describes the concepts and the framework of the ANSEA approach and discusses its relation to SEA and the EC Directive.
The sectoral clean development mechanism : a contribution from a sustainable transport perspective
(2007)
Energy efficiency is a national priority for China as rapid energy consumption growth aggravates its greenhouse gas emissions, local air pollution and energy scarcity. In the 1990s, a large number of voluntary agreements emerged in industrialised countries in order to improve industrial energy efficiency. These experiences are now taken into account in China. This article analyses the drivers for voluntary agreements on industrial energy efficiency in China, based on a case study of three enterprises in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Furthermore, the article reviews the institutional set-up of energy policy and investigates the pertaining policy culture. From the findings, conclusions are drawn on the role of voluntary agreements within China's larger policy context. We conclude that opposed to avoiding stricter regulation, voluntary agreements in Nanjing are reinterpreted in view of more stringent national provisions on energy efficiency in the 11th Five Year Plan. Hence, agreements have evolved into an implementation tool of national policy at the local level. For industry, another major driver for participation was identified as improving its relations with local authorities. Voluntary agreements showed to have the potential to overcome traditional constraints of implementing top-down policies at the local level in China.
Der Anstieg von Verkehrsaufkommen und -leistung in Deutschland und die Folgen für die Umwelt sind bekannt; die politischen und planerischen Konsequenzen hingegen stehen weitestgehend aus. Neben einer Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung einzelner Projekte ist vielmehr die Umweltprüfung auch von Plänen, Programmen und sogar Politiken notwendig. Mit der von der EU 2001 verabschiedeten Richtlinie zur Strategischen Umweltprüfung (SUP) steht ab 2004 ein Instrument zur Verfügung, dass Umweltbelange nun frühzeitig berücksichtigt. Die Autoren stellen die SUP ausführlich vor und analysieren detailliert Aufgaben, Informationssysteme und Entscheidungsprozesse in der Bundesverkehrswegeplanung (BVWP). Auf dieser Basis entwickeln sie ein Konzept zur Integration der SUP in die BVWP, identifizieren Hemmnisse für eine strategische und umweltorientierte Verkehrswegplanung und entwerfen Vorschläge für eine Weiterentwicklung des Instruments SUP als Beitrag zur zukünftigen Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen Verkehrsplanung.
Future of car-sharing in Germany : customer potential estimation, diffusion and ecological effect
(2007)
While the number of projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is expanding rapidly, there currently are relatively few transport projects in the global CDM portfolio. This article examines existing CDM transport projects and explores whether sectoral approaches to the CDM may provide a better framework for transport than the current project‐based CDM. We ask: Would a sectoral approach to the CDM promote the structural change and integrated policymaking needed to achieve sustainable transport policy, making it hence more desirable than the framework of the current project‐based CDM? We conclude that it is possible to design sectoral transport activities within clear project boundaries that fit into a framework of a programmatic or policy‐based CDM. Although we are able to ascertain that transport policy research yields several modelling tools to address the methodological requirements of the CDM, it becomes apparent that sectoral approaches will accentuate transport projects' problems regarding high complexity and related uncertainties. The CDM may need new rules to manage these risks. Nonetheless, sectoral approaches allow the scaling up of activities to a level that affects long‐term structural change.
Seit dem vierten Sachstandsbericht des Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) kann nicht mehr bestritten werden, dass der Klimawandel die globale Herausforderung dieses Jahrhunderts ist. Ziel muss es sein, den Ausstoß an Treibhausgasen zu reduzieren, so dass die Erderwärmung sich in überschaubaren Grenzen hält. Klima- und energiepolitische Lösungsansätze sind bekannt: Mindestziele für die Reduktion von Treibhausgasemissionen, die konsequente Fortführung des Emissionshandels, der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien sowie die Technologieförderung. Das Buch gibt einen kompakten und fundierten Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der klimapolitischen Debatte, zeigt Lösungswege und Optionen auf.