Blog List - SLOCAT

09 Jul 2014 In partners By Alice Yiu

Sustainable Transport Africa (STA)

Sustainable Transport Africa is a Non-Governmental Organization recently registered in Kenya with the primary objective of making transport more accessible to the lower income, physically challenged and financially disadvantaged groups, while reducing the adverse environmental and health impacts.

02 Jul 2014 In document By talya.enriquez

Concept Note on Financing Framework for Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport

24 Jun 2014 In News By talya.enriquez

World Bank publishes report to estimate multiple benefits of transport policies

Shanghai, China

16 Jun 2014 In News By talya.enriquez

SLoCaT Partnership and Bridging the Gap Initiative present at the ADP Technical Expert Meeting in Bonn

On 4-15 June 2014, the June session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) took place from in Bonn, Germany. This was a follow-up to the two technical expert meetings (TEM) were held in March 2014 on on renewable energy deployment and energy efficiency improvements, which are critical for bridging the pre-2020 ambition gap. Parties called for a follow-up meeting after these meetings to look at the progress reached since March and discuss the way forward up to Lima to enhance mitigation ambition.

16 Jun 2014 In rio_20_conf By talya.enriquez

Rio+20 icons

At the the Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the SLoCaT Partnership facilited the submission of 17 Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Transport. The Future We Want, the outcome document of Rio+20 says: “We welcome the commitments voluntarily entered into at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and throughout 2012 by all stakeholders and their networks to implement concrete policies, plans, programmes, projects and actions to promote sustainable development and poverty eradication.