Recent OECD, IEA, NEA, ITF Report Identifies Current Policies That Are Not in Line With Creating a Low-Carbon Economy

by Alice Yiu | Jul 17, 2015 | News

The ‘Aligning Policies for a Low-Carbon Economy’ report, published the OECD, IEA, NEA & ITF focuses on contradictory public policies, such as those that encourage investment in fossil fuels and work against global goals on climate change. It...

New BRICS Strategy Emphasizes Importance of Transport in Facilitating Economic Development

by Alice Yiu | Jul 15, 2015 | News

At its seventh annual summit, the BRICS group of countries (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa) announced the BRICS Economic Partnership Strategy through 2020, which aims to strengthen ties in transport, energy, and other sectors. The BRICS...

Position Paper on Financing Sustainable Transport by High-Level Advisory Group

by Alice Yiu | Jul 15, 2015 | News

Several SLoCaT members have contributed to the Position Paper on Financing Sustainable Transport by the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAGST). The Position Paper welcomes a number of outcomes of the Third International...

Compiled Issue Briefs HLAGST

by Alice Yiu | Jul 14, 2015 | Uncategorized

New World Bank Initiative Aims to Transform Transport and ICT Project Evaluation to Increase Value of Investment

by Alice Yiu | Jul 13, 2015 | News

According to a recent article by the World Bank, multilateral lending for transport amounts to 29% of multilateral development bank assistance, only 0.4% of all impact evaluations have transport as a core topic, and only 2.5% include Information and Communication...