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CDM Executive Board calls for standardized transport baseline

The CDM Executive Board in its recent 72nd meeting considered a concept note on the challenges and opportunities for standardization and simplification in the context of the transport sector and requested the secretariat to develop guidelines on standardized baselines for the transport sector covering standardization at the following levels:

(a) Standardized parameters or approaches that are country- or region-specific;

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India's Ministry of Urban Affairs issues Advisory on Congestion Charging

India’s Ministry of Urban Affairs has issued an advisory requesting authorities on urban transport to issue necessary instructions for identifying the most congested areas in their cities, getting a proper study done on various aspcts of congestion chargingas per city requirements and consider adopting “congestion charging system” as a measure to decongest a particular area/CBD, increasing a mode share of cycling as well public transport and increase the mobility of people besides controlling pollution. Read More »