The Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) and members are going to participate together at the ninth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) and actively highlight the importance and raise voice for stronger implementation of sustainable urban mobility that is in line with the New Urban Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This new report highlights solutions which can be implemented in the short term and have the potential to make a significant contribution to a “Beyond 2°C” scenario for the mobility sector. The Open Lab’s “Beyond 2°C” community brings together about twenty major companies from the mobility sector committed to making a positive contribution to tackling climate change.
The transport sector is a key player in achieving the <2°C target:
In May 2017, SLoCaT team started the work on gathering data on transport and development of a database to integrate varied information. The result of this activity is the Transport Knowledge Base (TraKB) Version 0.1.
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The One Planet Summit, organised by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, concluded that decarbonisation of all modes of transport by 2050, in line with the well below 2 Degree Target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change is possible but will require action now to enable a comprehensive transformation of this key sector in the decades to come.
A High-Level Roundtable on “Rural Transformation: Climate Resilient and Low Emission Food Systems” was held on November 14, 2017 in Bonn, Germany during COP23.