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Improving Transnational Transport Corridors

In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases

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Figure 40: Railway construction projects on CAREC 3

Source: Unlocking the Potential of Railways, A Railway Strategy of CAREC 2017-2030.

4.4.8.

Environmental and Energy Factors

The policy for CAREC corridors in general and corridor 3 in particular, on the environmental

and energy issues in the transport sector, is still very premature. The only initiative in this

region came from NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action), which is emerged as part

of the negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change

(UNFCCC) for a long-term climate change agreement. For Kazakhstan, the proposed NAMA

fosters the use of natural gas in the road transport sector— expanding the refueling

infrastructure for compressed natural gas, vehicle conversion, and technical capacity support.

However, it is still in the early stage and the formal institutional framework supporting NAMA

development and implementation has yet to be established.

This initiative can be seen as a positive starting point to promote alternative-fuelled heavy-

duty vehicles in the region. Since it is an initiative at the national level, its positive impacts on

the corridor will not be seen in the near future. Adopting this initiative at the corridor level will

face several barriers, which are the same barriers faced by successful transport corridors like

TEN-T (see 2.10.1).