The need for cleaner and more efficient vehicles, public transport and adequate infrastructure for non-motorised transport in Africa is an issue that has received attention at the ongoing Transport Forum in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
PIANC’s Think Climate Coalition has released its action plan, “Navigating a Changing Climate,” to outline the work committed by the partners of the initiative to help the inland and maritime navigation infrastructure sector respond to climate change.
The European Parliament commissioned study analyses which targets would be compatible with the global long-term goal of keeping the temperature increase below 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels. The analysis supports the view that it is important to establish targets for both sectors that clearly indicate that emissions cannot grow in an unlimited and unregulated way.
“This summary, shows how the strong deployment of policies within renewable energy, energy efficiency, transport, land use, carbon capture, use and storage and non-CO2 gases dramatically reduces greenhouse gas emissions at the same time as advancing goals in no less than 15 other areas, including citizens’ quality of life, health and work, lower government spending and higher tax revenues, better energy security and delivery and improved private sector profits”.
The Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) has produced a series of research briefs to summarize the state-of-the-art and/ or latest new research findings on various topics in sustainable transport. These 2-pager articles are written by well-informed policy makers, practitioners, and researchers in a “popular science” style with related illustrations.