Can Transport Continue to Drive Development in the Face of Carbon and Resource Constraints?

Can Transport Continue to Drive Development in the Face of Carbon and Resource Constraints? / Andreas Kopp, Development in a changing climate, 27/06/2013

http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/can-transport-continue-drive-development-face-carbon-and-resource-constraints

Transport drives development: It leads agricultural producers out of subsistence by linking them to markets, enables regions and nations to become more competitive, and makes cities more productive.  But transport is also a big polluter, contributing 20 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions.  These emissions have grown by 1.7 percent annually since 2000, with 60 percent of the increase in non-OECD countries where economic growth has been accompanied by a surge in demand for individual motor vehicles…


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