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Road transport accounts for 70% of the transport sector’s emissions in China. Compared to the aviation and maritime sectors, the road transport sector is relatively easy to decarbonize and enjoys new opportunities such as vehicle electrification. There is momentum in China focusing on a “fossil...
Buses has been at the forefront of vehicle electrification. The launch of “One Thousand Vehicles in Ten Cities” National Energy-efficient and New Energy Vehicles demonstration project in 2009 marked China’s national effort to promote electric buses. Since then, e-buses have outnumbered diesel...
Active commitments and actions at the sub-national level are in place to support carbon emission reduction to reach the 2°C or 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement. At the first U.S.-Sino Climate Smart/Low-carbon City Summit in 2015, Wuhan announced it would aim to reach peak city-wide all sector-...
Streets are at the center of urban life. Streets consist of a small fraction of urban spaces, but they play a vital role to facilitate urban mobility, social interactions, and economic vibrancy. Although in China, the concept of “complete street” has been adopted in a few Chinese cities, it has...
The restart of Power Sector Reform brings new opportunities for cooperate green power purchase. The lowering threshold for market entry and the shift toward a market pricing mechanism are both lifting the barriers for companies in their participation in the green power purchase. However, China’s...
The U.S. green power market has experienced exploration and practice for more than 20 years, emerging with flexible procurement methods in which compliance and voluntary markets coexist. The construction of China's green power market is still at a nascent stage and there are many problems that...
Faced with severe congestion and air quality issues, the Beijing Municipal Government has issued a series of transport demand management (TDM) measures and energy conservation and emissions-reduction policies. However, one of the main challenges for the government is to quantify the emissions-...
The working paper will be part of the “Low Emission Zone/Congestion Charge (LEZ/CC) Public Communication Strategies” series of papers to offer a comprehensive package of public communication strategies to safeguard successful implementation. It is the first paper in the series, and...
EMBARQ Turkey, in partnership with Gehl Architects, has been working to revitalize the Historical Peninsula of Istanbul, a region with unique historic and cultural heritage. This report presents research conducted by Gehl Architects and EMBARQ Turkey on public spaces, public interaction,...
Congestion charging (CC) policy has been put on top of the Beijing municipal government’s agenda list as one of the effective measures to deal with serious traffic congestion and air pollution issues. However, as a public policy that is closely linked to residents’ daily travel, successful...
Zhejiang was the first province to institutionalize greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories at province, city, and county level and therefore has a solid foundation for GHG emissions data. It also has implemented an emissions intensity goal, and established an allocation and performance...
In 2017, World Resources Institute officially launched an open data platform, Performance Tracking of China’s Climate Actions 1.0, to track the progress of national goals on mitigating climate change. The platform tracks and updates data in a...
This working paper on urban housing is the latest installment of WRI’s flagship World Resources Report (WRR), “Towards a More Equitable City.” The report examines if more equitable access to core urban services improves the economy and the environment.
With buildings responsible for 32 percent of global energy consumption and a quarter of CO2 emissions, there is a huge, under-tapped opportunity to create more sustainable cities through building efficiency. More efficient buildings can generate economic benefits, reduce environmental impacts...
China’s National Transit Metropolis Demonstration Program rolled out in late 2011 in the context of “double” reform on both supporting policies and institutions of the Ministry of Transport. This program selected 37 pilot cities to develop public transport as their urban development priorities,...
On August 31, 2016, seven Chinese ministries jointly issued the Guidelines for Establishing the Green Financial System. One of the policy measures is to launch national and local green development funds to mobilize private capital for green development. Such institutions have already...
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the most promising technologies to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from stationary fossil fuel use. Governments around the world have been supporting CCS research, development, demonstration (RD&D) and commercialization. Authorities from...
The Transport Emissions & Social Cost Assessment is a project under the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable and Livable Cities Program, funded by the Caterpillar Foundation. The project aims to develop a methodology guide, with a simple MS Excel– based tool, to estimate transport...
This research overviewed the status quo of sludge treatment and disposal in China, analyzed the cost and environmental impact of different technologies. In order to address the challenges including insufficient financial support, technology selection difficulty, conflict standards for sludge...
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