Episode 1: Methodologies for Baselines and Monitoring - Fuel Economy Standards

The GIZ Project Advancing Transport Climate Strategies and the UNFCCC Secretariat jointly organised this webinar on how to quantify emission reductions from fuel economy standards.

00:00 Intro
03:34 Introduction and Background of the Passenger and Freight Transport Volume of the Compendium of GHG Baselines Monitoring – by Urda Eichhorst
07:52 GHG Baseline and Monitoring Methodology for Fuel Economy Standards – by Francisco Posada and Zifei Yang
49:51 Q&A

The webinar is the first of our joint webinar series on the Passenger and Freight Transport Volume of the Compendium on GHG Baselines and Monitoring. Methodologies will be presented for each of the eight mitigation action types covered in the Transport Volume:

1. National Fuel Economy Standards
2. Comprehensive Urban Transport Programmes
3. Pricing Policies
4. Vehicle Efficiency Improvement Programmes
5. Inter-Urban Rail Infrastructure
6. Shift Mode of Fright Transport from Road to Rail or Water
7. Mass Transit Investments
8. Alternative Fuels Incentives, Regulation and Production

We are proud to kick-off the series with a presentation by the ICCT on the methodology and newly developed excel tool for emissions assessment of fuel economy standards.

The Advancing Transport Climate Strategies project is financed underthe International Climate Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Natur Conservation and Nuclear Safety.