How to better integrate sustainable transport in the proposed Sustainable Development Goals and targets
Shanghai, China
SLoCaT Partnership calls for comments on the Proposed Results Framework on Sustainable Transport
Shanghai, China
To promote the integration of sustainable transport in global policies on sustainable development, the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) started the development of a Results Framework on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport in October 2013. It is intended that this Results Framework will result in:
Seven Major Public Transport Companies Sign Up to the UITP Climate Declaration
Seven major public transport companies have signed up to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s personal challenge to UITP members to show their climate leadership at September’s UN Climate Summit in New York.
Summit of Ministers calls for more global co-operation in transport policy
Leipzig, Germany – Ministers of Transport from around the world have called for more international co-operation to create transport systems for the needs of a changing world.
“Global transformational change is a characteristic of our age”, ministers from the 54 member countries of the International Transport Forum (ITF) state in a declaration agreed today at their Annual Summit in Leipzig, Germany.
University of Michigan SMART Initiative launches MobiPrize for sustainable transport awards
Shanghai- 20 May, 2014
University of Michigan SMART initiative, supported by Rockefeller Foundation launched the MobiPrize and is calling for applicaticants. The MobiPrize is an award honoring entrepreneurial ventures that are changing the world–helping to improve the quality of life and revitalize the environment and economy of communities and regions through sustainable transportation (New Mobility).
City of Milan wins prestigious transport award
Paris/Leipzig – May 20, 2014
The Municipality of Milan in Italy is the winner of the 2014 Transport Achievement Award for its ‘Area C’ urban road pricing scheme.
The Transport Achievement Award is awarded annually by the International Transport Forum at the OECD, an intergovernmental organisation for the transport sector with 54 member countries.
UN-DESA Calls for Papers for a Special Issue on Sustainable Transport
Natural Resources Forum, a United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, issued by the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations, calls for papers for a special issue on Sustainable Transport, to be published in 2015.
Articles submitted for this special issue should be scientifically sound and relevant to global, national o