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Analysis and Policy Recommendations from the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport 42<br />
FINANCING<br />
8. Promote diversified funding sources and coherent<br />
fiscal frameworks to advance sustainable transport<br />
systems, initiatives and projects.<br />
a. Employ regulatory and market-based measures<br />
appropriate to national and local needs and<br />
circumstances to diversify sources of funding<br />
towards sustainable transport, while at the same<br />
time encouraging changes in behaviour.<br />
b. Use beneficiary and polluter pays measures<br />
including carbon pricing, congestion pricing,<br />
and other charges as part of the diverse tool box<br />
from which funding for transport can be drawn.<br />
c. Keep fairness and equity as guiding principles<br />
in the application and implementation of these<br />
measures, avoiding excessive impact of these<br />
mechanisms on those with fewer resources<br />
and on the funding base needed for transport<br />
systems to be able to make sustainable<br />
infrastructure investments.<br />
d. Introduce innovative approaches, such as<br />
land value capture programs, green bond<br />
investments, and transit-oriented development<br />
grants as applicable and appropriate.<br />
e. Make strategic, equity-based decisions regarding<br />
the use of revenue, including from market-based<br />
and other sustainable transport measures.<br />
f. Scale down and eliminate inefficient fossil<br />
fuel subsidies by national and sub-national<br />
governments.<br />
g. Ensure that the principles of sustainability<br />
are respected when national and local<br />
governments and private sector organizations<br />
are planning for the participation of private<br />
capital through public-private partnerships and<br />
other approaches.<br />
h. Cooperate within national and local<br />
governments on enhancing the creditworthiness<br />
of cities.<br />
9. Increase international development funding and<br />
climate funding for sustainable transport.<br />
a. Establish clear criteria, including equitable<br />
access, for international development funding of<br />
sustainable transport.<br />
b. Ensure that climate funding mechanisms finance<br />
sustainable transport initiatives, acknowledging<br />
their inherent complexity, great mitigation<br />
potential and multiple co-benefits.<br />
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION<br />
10. Promote sustainable transport technologies<br />
through outcome-oriented government<br />
investment and policies that encourage private<br />
sector investment and action through various<br />
incentive structures.<br />
a. Provide financial resources and support<br />
technical capacity building to advance research<br />
and development and scaling up of clean fuels<br />
and propulsions, sustainable transport services<br />
and renewable energy.<br />
b. Enact and enforce performance standards that<br />
drive industry toward developing clean and<br />
more efficient systems and technologies.<br />
c. Maintain policy neutrality to allow consumers<br />
and market forces to drive development toward<br />
the most effective sustainable technology.<br />
d. Lead by example through government<br />
procurement of sustainable technologies and<br />
products, and policies encouraging employees<br />
to travel and act sustainably.<br />
e. Advance knowledge sharing, open data<br />
sources and technical assistance to developing<br />
countries, including through capacity building<br />
and knowledge, test and demonstration<br />
platforms by national governments, international<br />
organizations and the business sector.