Malaysia Stocktaking Report on Sustainable Transport and Climate Change
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ASEAN - German Technical Cooperation | Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation in the Land Transport Sector Malaysia Stocktaking Report on Sustainable Transport and Climate Change Data, Policy, and Monitoring Disclaimer Acknowledgements Findings, interpretations, and conclusions The authors and Transport and Climate Change expressed in this document are based on project (TCC) would like to express our information gathered by GIZ and its appreciation to those who have contributed to consultants, partners, and contributors. this report including: Ministry of Transport (MOT), the Economic Planning Unit (EPU), GIZ does not, however, guarantee the accuracy Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD), or completeness of information in this Ministry of Finance (MOF), Ministry of Urban document, and cannot be held responsible for Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government any errors, omissions or losses which emerge (KPKT), Ministry of Energy, Green Technology from its use. and Water (KeTTHA), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE), Ministry of Copyright International Trade and Industry (MITI), Road This publication may be reproduced in whole or Transport Department (JPJ), Malaysian Green in part in any form for educational or non-profit Technology Corporation (MGTC), Malaysia purposes without special permission from the Productivity Corporation (MPC), Technology copyright holder, whenever provided Depository Agency (TDA), Sustainable Energy acknowledgement of the source is made. The Development Authority Malaysia (SEDA), as GIZ would appreciate receiving a copy of any well as the hard working staff of both GIZ and publication that uses this GIZ publication as a Focus Applied Technologies. source. No use of this publication may be made for resale or for any other commercial purpose whatsoever. Malaysia Stocktaking Report on Sustainable Transport and Climate Change Data, Policy, and Monitoring November 2016 Dr Horizon Gitano Briggs, University of Kuala Lumpur – Malaysian Spanish Institute Leong Hau Kian, Focus Applied Technologies The project context The GIZ Programme on Cities, Environment As presented to the ASEAN Land Transport and Transport (CET) in ASEAN seeks to Working group, TCC’s regional activities are in reduce emissions from transport and industry by the area of fuel efficiency, green freight and providing co-benefits for local and global logistics, as well as data, indicators, and MRV. environmental protection. The CET Project At the national level the project supports ‘Energy Efficiency and Climate Change relevant transport and environment government Mitigation in the Land Transport Sector in the bodies in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, ASEAN region’ (Transport and Climate Change Thailand, and Vietnam for the development of (TCC) www.TransportandClimateChange.org) national action plans on sustainable transport. aims in turn to develop strategies and action TCC also offers capacity building through plans for more sustainable transport. different training courses. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and implemented by GIZ in cooperation with the ASEAN secretariat. Table of contents List of tables ................................................................................................................. iv List of figures ................................................................................................................. v List of abbreviations and acronyms ............................................................................ vii Executive summary ....................................................................................................... 1 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................... 5 2. Transport climate data .............................................................................................. 6 2.1. General country information ............................................................................................... 7 2.2. Transportation........................................................................................................................ 8 2.3. Rail ........................................................................................................................................... 9 2.4. Freight ................................................................................................................................... 11 2.5. Energy consumption and GHG emissions from the transportation sector ............... 11 2.6. Emissions reduction potential from the Malaysia transport sector (road) .................. 18 2.6.1. Modal shift .................................................................................................................. 19 2.6.2. Fleet purge .................................................................................................................. 21 2.6.3. Fuel switch .................................................................................................................. 22 2.6.4. Propulsion switch: Hybrid electric vehicles ........................................................... 24 2.6.5. Propulsion switch: Electric vehicles ....................................................................... 24 2.6.6. Avoid ........................................................................................................................... 26 2.6.7. Summary ..................................................................................................................... 27 2.7. Emissions reduction potential from the Malaysia land freight sector ......................... 28 2.7.1. Freight- shift ............................................................................................................... 28 2.7.2. Freight- improve ........................................................................................................ 29 2.7.3. Freight- fuel switch .................................................................................................... 29 2.7.4. Freight- avoid ............................................................................................................. 29 2.7.5. Freight- summary....................................................................................................... 30 3. Policies and institutions .......................................................................................... 32 3.1. Recent climate change prioritisation ................................................................................. 32 3.2. Stakeholders .......................................................................................................................... 32 3.3. Institutional structure and climate change policies ......................................................... 33 3.3.1. Malaysia national policy on climate change ........................................................... 35 i 3.3.2. National green technology policy (renewable energy and efficiency for the transport sector) ................................................................................................................... 37 3.3.3. National Physical Plan (NPP) .................................................................................. 37 3.4. Existing policies on transportation ................................................................................... 38 3.4.1. Policy summary .......................................................................................................... 43 3.5. Environmental policy financing ........................................................................................ 43 3.6. Monitoring ............................................................................................................................ 44 3.7. Future emissions projections ............................................................................................. 45 4. Barriers to sustainable transportation in Malaysia ................................................. 48 4.1. Policy development barriers ............................................................................................... 48 Complex interagency relations ........................................................................................... 48 Absence of lead agency for sustainable transportation .................................................. 48 Lack of carbon emissions emphasis in transport policy ................................................. 49 Lack of resources for implementation and monitoring .................................................. 49 Low awareness of sustainable transport ........................................................................... 49 4.2. Physical and infrastructural barriers to sustainable transport policy ............................ 50 Absence of central technical lab supporting vehicle type approval testing ................. 50 Upgrading PUSPAKOM inspection and testing facilities ............................................. 50 Integrated database system for sustainable transport management.............................. 50 Integrated land use/urban area transport planning ........................................................ 50 Insufficient transport hub interconnectivity .................................................................... 51 Underutilisation of inland port rail, port congestion and multi-modality.................... 51 Light commuter