Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport

The Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP) has release a new video that explores the critical role of rural transport in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The video underwrites, with research evidence and expert views, five key messages that address the importance of improved rural access and how it contributes to realising key SDGs such as poverty alleviation, food security, gender equality, economic growth, good health and education, etc.

Renewable power accounted for 70% of net additions to global powe generating capacity in 2017, the largest increase in renewable power capacity in modern history, according to REN21’s Renewables 2018 Global Status Report (GSR). But the heating, cooling and transport sectors – which together account for about four-fifths of global final energy demand – continue to lag far behind the power sector.

This report applies a sectoral analysis on the Talanoa Dialogue Inputs and analyzes how sustainable transport was reflected in the Talanoa Dialogue Inputs. The findings show that transport receives little overall attention but, if mentioned, it is part of the solutions towards realizing the Paris Agreement targets.

The Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), on behalf of the Paris Process on Mobility and Climate (PPMC) and the SLoCaT members, has submitted input to the 2018 Talanoa Dialogue Platform highlighting the critical role of the transport sector in achieving the Paris Agreement.