Egypt’s transportation sector accounts for more than a quarter of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. With MDG-F support, the government established a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Awareness and Promotion Unit within the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. The unit created a ‘Vehicle Scrapping and Recycling Programme’ — the first CDM transport project in the world — to reduce CO2 emissions. In 2012, over 40,000 taxis were scrapped and replaced with new energy-efficient cars.