Energy efficiency and climate change considerations for on-road transport in Asia

  • 19/05/2006

  • Asian Development Bank

Stabilizing and reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations is essential to global sustainability and this will require intensified and ongoing efforts to increase overall global energy efficiency and a shift from fossil fuels to non-carbon energy sources. The improvements in global energy efficiency need to be achieved in a context of a growing population and economy. In July 2005, the Group of Eight (G8) adopted the Gleneagles