Publication: Evaluation Insight Note: Transport Decarbonization
Date
2022-11
ISSN
Published
2022-11
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
Transport is a priority action area
under the World Bank’s Climate Change Action Plan. Climate
action in the transport sector is essential as the sector
emits approximately 24 percent of the global total of
energy-related carbon emissions and, without aggressive
measures, the World Bank expects emissions from transport to
grow 60 percent by 2050. This EIN was guided by the overall
question: How has the World Bank been approaching transport
decarbonization To answer this question, the note uses
existing evidence from the self-evaluation system of the
World Bank, including Implementation Completion and Results
Reports prepared by the project teams and the associated
Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) validations, relevant
information from other project documents, literature from
policy and academic sources, advisory services and
analytics, country strategies, and existing IEG evaluations.
This systematic review provided the basis for four main
insights into the current patterns of World Bank work on
transport decarbonization and the identification of a range
of potential actions to exploit opportunities for
decarbonization: (i) The World Bank has steadily increased
the number of projects with decarbonization content,
especially in low income countries, and has recently put
together a strong knowledge base on transport
decarbonization. (ii) Nevertheless, transport
decarbonization in World Bank lending remains timid against
the needed contributions to the Climate Change Action Plan.
(iii) Country-specific decarbonization diagnostics and
analytical work has been limited, and transport
decarbonization seldom makes it onto the World Bank’s
strategic country agenda. (iv) The World Bank has rarely
measured transport decarbonization directly.
Citation
“World Bank. 2022. Evaluation Insight Note: Transport Decarbonization. Evaluation Insight Note;. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38349 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”