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    Transportation

    AFD works in partnership with municipalities that wish to implement urban development plans in order to improve living conditions while helping to combat climate change.

     

    Urban growth and climate

    The beginning of the new millennium has been marked by the growth of cities. By 2030, the global population will have reached 8 billion and will include 5 billion city dwellers. This growth will first and foremost concern countries that come under development aid.
    As a counterpoint to their economic and cultural virtues, cities can have extremely negative results in terms of physical organization, social equity and environmental balance. These degradations in turn have an effect on health, the quality of life for urban populations and the scale of climate change.
    Most urban development projects include at least one component that gives priority to environmental and climate effects, particularly operations in drainage, individual or collective sanitation, and operations to reduce atmospheric pollution by improving public transport or traffic.
    AFD operations are often supported by the French Global Environment Facility (French GEF), a bilateral public fund set up in 1994 by the French Government following the Rio Summit. The French GEF, which seeks innovative and exemplary projects, has supported several urban development projects financed by AFD which have consequently been able to benefit from both its methods and financing.

     

    Development of clean transport

    The balance between supply and demand in urban transport is nowadays often broken in developing countries. Road networks are particularly limited and no longer meet changing needs. The rise in traffic congestion causes a whole host of negative effects: increase in transport costs, rise in GHG emissions, air pollution, noise and accidents, exclusion of vulnerable populations (children, the elderly or disabled, poor non-motorized populations…), drop in urban productivity, etc.
    AFD’s response to this situation is based on sustainable and “clean” urban development. It consists in supporting reforms that aim to improve management in the sector and make deep changes to the architecture of public transport networks in cities in the South.


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