Abstract:

Adaptation to climate change in the transport sector is necessary as transport systems worldwide are vulnerable to the increasing impacts of extreme weather and catastrophic impacts. Crucially, sustainable transport systems must adapt to climate change to maintain reliability to enable transport’s role in economic and social development. Many sustainable transport solutions can combine increased mitigation potential and resilience as mutual benefits. However, relatively little work has been done to organize the growing knowledge base on adaptation to climate change. The report analyses potential measures on transport sector adaptation in a systematic manner, as well national and global policy commitments. Also, the report covers greater actions on adaptation in the transport sector with substantive work on the development of a knowledge base, guidelines and toolkits in process, and initial steps to increase the profile of climate adaptation in national climate policies and in the transport portfolios of international financing institutions (IFIs) and climate finance instruments.