Compact Cities Electrified: Africa Region
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Addressing the climate crisis will require rapid, sustained transformation in every country and every sector of industrial activity. In The Compact City Scenario – Electrified report, researchers from ITDP and the University of California, Davis (with support from the ClimateWorks Foundation) modeled the global changes that will be necessary to decarbonize urban passenger transport. The team found that only through vehicle electrification and modal shift combined can urban transport emissions be reduced enough to limit global warming to less than 1.5°C.
While this original report was both global and regional, ITDP has produced a series of country and region-specific Compact Cities Electrified reports that leverage local contexts and data to outline various regional scenarios for the future of urban transport.
The final report in the series takes a closer look at the Africa region to identify four highly ambitious, but feasible, scenarios for the next few decades of the region’s urban transport sector. Specifically, this report examines pathways to addressing the unique climate and growth challenges in Africa by prioritizing rapid transit, walking, and cycling and optimizing investments.
Among the four potential scenarios — Business-As-Usual, High Electrification, High Shift, and Electrification + Shift — the brief finds that only an Electrification + Shift approach can help the Africa region effectively reduce its urban transport emissions and address the effects of the climate crisis.
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