The Global Report on Human Settlements will focus this year on “Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility" (www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=555). This landmark publication by UN-Habitat covers a broad range of urban mobility issues and aims to foster the debate about sustainable transport and its role in cities of the future.

Transport sector is one of the most dominant emitters of CO₂, similar to industrial and domestic sectors. Massive CO₂ emissions from transport definitely a big cause of extreme whether. It is at the same time one of the biggest serious victims of CO₂.