This report uses case studies conducted in Asian and Latin American cities to explore how urban transport policies and programmes could be developed as supported Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). The report covers issues related to the scope, institutional involvement, financing and monitoring of NAMAs:

Jakarta’s NAMA is centred on the city’s transport demand management policies - road pricing, parking policies and public transport
Mexico City’s NAMA is focused on the optimisation of the existing conventional bus system
the NAMA in Belo Horizonte, Brazil proposed an integrated mobility plan that includes investments in non-motorised and public transport infrastructure, as well as combined land-use
the case study in Hefei, China, focuses on the potential of standardised baselines to simplify monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV).

The authors find that transport sectors have the potential to yield significant local and global environmental benefits, in addition to economic and social benefits. They argue for the need to operationalise NAMA mechanisms for any post-2012 climate agreement to achieve the full mitigation potential in developing countries.