The new “Transport NDC Tracker” launched today by the International Transport Forum at the OECD monitors how transport appears in the decarbonisation commitments of the countries that have joined the Paris Climate Agreement.
The Transport NDC Tracker keeps tabs on whether the “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs), as the decarbonisation plans that countries submit under the Paris Agreement are known,
- mention transport;
- include transport decarbonisation measures;
- set transport CO2-reduction targets.
The tracker is updated every Monday to take into account new NDC submissions to the UNFCCC. Based on the data available on 27 September 2021,
- 94% of countries refer to transport in some way in their NDCs;
- 77% of countries have included transport measures in their NDCs;
- 14% set concrete targets for the reduction of transport CO2.
The Transport NDC Tracker aims to highlight the critical importance of transport for climate policy by making transparent countries’ transport…
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