Reports
This report draws global attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened stark inequalities in cities around the world. This report makes the urgent case for greater urban inclusion, and provides guidance and inspiration to cities on how to achieve it. The report helps cities to understand that there are different dimensions of urban inclusion and provides a 10-step action plan to advance inclusion with a sequence of actions to enable urban inclusion in the spatial, digital, social/institutional, and economic realms on a spectrum from getting started to advanced action.
Green finance for Asian state-owned enterprises: an opportunity to accelerate the green transition
2023
Author(s): Asian Development Bank
This report reveals how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Asia's emerging economies can play a key role in helping to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, by using green bonds to upgrade their economic activities from polluting to green.
Driving a green future: a retrospective review of China’s electric vehicle development and outlook for the future
2021
Author(s): Jin L, He H, Cui H, Lutsey N, Wu C, Chu Y, Zhu J, Xiong Y, Liu X
Reviews the rapid growth of electric vehicles (EVs) in China over the past decade and compares China’s evolution and future development vision for EVs with those of the United States and Europe.
CO2 emissions from commercial aviation: 2013, 2018, and 2019
2020
Author(s): Graver B, Rutherford D, Sola Zheng S
Presents a bottom-up, global carbon dioxide emissions inventory for three years of commercial aviation and estimates emissions and carbon intensity by both seating class and aircraft class.
European vehicle market statistics, 2019/2020
2019
Author(s): Bieker G, Tietge U, Rodriguez F, Mock P
The European vehicle market statistics pocketbook offers a statistical portrait of passenger car and light commercial vehicle fleets in the European Union, updated annually. The emphasis is on vehicle technologies and emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants. Brief introductions to each chapter note important trends and provide selected comparisons to other large vehicle markets.
Recommendations for post-Euro 6 standards for light-duty vehicles in the European Union
2019
Author(s): Rodríguez F, Bernard Y, Dornoff J, Mock P
The report highlights the limitations of current emissions standards and provides detailed recommendations to overcome them. The recommendations cover several topics where the current light-duty vehicle emission standards should be strengthened. These topics include the emission of regulated, unregulated, and climate forcing pollutants; the testing regimes, data evaluation methods, and boundary conditions for demonstrating compliance with type-approval and in-service conformity testing; and measures to improve the durability, emissions performance, and compliance with the standards throughout the useful life of the vehicles.
Assesses progress in 2019 toward reducing black carbon emissions from diesel on-road light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles
Toward greener supply chains: A critical assessment of a multimodal, multinational freight supply chain of a Fortune 50 retailer
2019
Author(s): Façanha C, Hernandez U, Mao X, Pineda L
Leverages data from The Home Depot and the EPA’s SmartWay program to assess the energy, climate, and health impacts of technology and other emissions reduction strategies on an eastbound trade route from China to the United States.
Costs and benefits of a Pearl River Delta Emission Control Area
2019
Author(s): Mao X, Chen C, Comer B, Rutherford D
Analysis of a potential Chinese Emission Control Area finds substantial health benefits in the Greater Pearl River Delta region and the benefit-cost ratio ranges from about 4:1 to 6:1.
Improving fuel efficiency for heavy-duty vehicles of 3.5–12 tonnes in India: benefits, costs, and environmental impacts
2019
Author(s): Karali N, Abhyankar N, Sharpe B, Bandivadekar A
Examines fuel-saving technologies for new HDVs in India over the next 10 years and explores how the deployment of technologies will impact petroleum consumption and CO2 emissions to 2050