China: GEF Efficient and Green Freight Transport Project

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The development objective of GEF Efficient and Green Freight Transport Project for China is to (i) improve the Recipient’s institutional capacity to formulate and evaluate policies and strategies to promote green freight transport systems; and (ii) pilot innovative carbon emission. This project has three components. 1) The first component, National Technical Assistance (TA) and Policy Development, has the following three subcomponents: (i) Development of Policy and Strategy for Low Carbon Multimodal Freight Transportation System; (ii) Development of National Policies and Guidelines for Green Urban Freight Distribution; and (iii) Development of an Abatement Cost Analytical Tool for Freight Transport Emission Reduction. 2) The second component, Subnational Technical Assistance (TA) and Pilots, has the following five subcomponents: (i) Selected activities related to multimodal transport across the Bohai Gulf; (ii) Selected activities related to Urban Freight Joint Distribution in Weifang; (iii) Selected activities related to Sea‐Rail Intermodal Transport in the port of Xiamen; (iv) Selected activities related to Integrated Urban‐Rural Distribution in Guangdong; and (v) Selected activities related to the Integrated Development of the Inland Waterway of the Han River. 3) The third component, Capacity Building, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Project Management, has the following three subcomponents: (i) Capacity Building. Provision of technical support; (ii) Monitoring and Evaluation (M and E); and (iii) Project Management.