摘要: |
Railways are one of the most energy-efficient, safest, and least carbon-intensive ways to transport goods. As part of a balanced multimodal transport System, they support economic integration, competitive-ness and trade. In most regions of the world, however, rail has either been losing market share to road freight over the past 10 to 20 years or has hardly changed, often despite government plans to shift more freight to rail.In Europe, a political renaissance for rail freight is underway, driven by the decarbon-ization agenda as well as by its resilient per-formance during the pandemic. Further-more, shifting from road transport to rail or inland waterway is the most popular freight action in the national climate strategies sub-mitted to the UNFCCC, according to the tracker of climate strategies for transport of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and the SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport.This article illustrates key challenges and policy Solutions in advancing intermodal freight transport, particularly in the context of emerging economies. The experiences of India, Mexico, China and Indonesia are reviewed in this regard. These countries cooperate with GIZ on strategies for greener freight transport and on putting their modal shift objectives into practice, with funding from the German government's International Climate Initiative and from the Fed- eral Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The article highlights selected cooperation activities. |