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Transport Strategies for Net-Zero Systems by Design

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Efforts that primarily focus on incremental change in systems that are unsustainable by design are one of the main barriers to scaling up climate action. This report applies the OECD well-being lens process to the transport sector. It builds on the report Accelerating Climate Action and encourages countries to focus climate action on delivering systems that - by design - improve well-being while requiring less energy and materials, and thus producing less emissions. The report identifies three dynamics at the source of car dependency and high emissions: induced demand, urban sprawl and the erosion of active and shared transport modes. The report also provides policy recommendations to reverse such dynamics and reduce emissions while improving well-being, from radical street redesign, to spatial planning aimed at increasing proximity, and policies to mainstream shared mobility. Analysis also shows why the effectiveness and public acceptability of carbon pricing and policies incentivising vehicle electrification can significantly increase after policy reprioritisation towards systems redesign.

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Transport strategies for net-zero systems by design: changing priorities

This chapter provides a summary of the results obtained from applying the three steps of the Well‑Being Lens process to the surface transport sector. The first step – envision – defines the outcomes that a well-functioning system should achieve. The second step – understand – provides a snapshot of the key dynamics leading to unsustainable-by-design transport and urban systems. The chapter explains how mobility-oriented mental models and policies lead to unsustainable results and limit the scope and effectiveness of climate strategies. It also provides a snapshot of what climate strategies embedded in a system redesing logic will look like for the sector.

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