2.3: Transportation and Environment (EMBARQ)

Anticipates the threat of growing wealth on sustainable urban transportation

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Traffic congestion created by the world’s burgeoning middle classes disadvantages the poor by constraining economic growth and exacerbating health problems from air pollution, while contributing to GHG emissions. Target outcomes likely before 2012 include: - Embarq is instrumental in helping at least 10 cities in the developing world to create sustainable transportation systems (several are scheduled to come on line in 2008). - Embarq is influential in fostering national policies in four countries for reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector, including incentives for non-motorized transport, transit investment, vehicle demand management, and improved technologies.

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