Transport for health: the global burden of disease from motorized road transport
This report summarizes the findings of a long and meticulous journey of data gathering and analysis to quantify the health losses from road deaths and injuries worldwide, as part of the path-finding Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study.
Nordic Development Fund supports climate change adaptation in the transport sector
Nordic Development Fund (NDF) has recently approved two new transport adaptation projects that will develop adaptive capacity and integration of climate change aspects into planning and design of road transport infrastructure. In Mozambique, NDF, together with the African Development Bank (AfDB), will support the National Road Administration, and other key stakeholders, with capacity-building and additional tools to manage climate impact threats to road development.
NDF is co-financing with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a technical cooperation project to establish a Transport NAMA Support Facility in Asia
The Warsaw Statement on Low Carbon Transport and Sustainable Development endorsed at Transport Day 2013, alongside the nineteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-19) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), emphasises the use of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) for developing countries in the transport sector.
Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP)
Safe and sustainable transport for rural communities
Key Elements SLoCaT Results Framework on Sustainable Transport Reflected in OWG co-Chairs' Proposals on post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
As part of the development of a new global sustainable development agenda, the co-chairs of an UN Open Working Group (OWG) published on 21 February an initial list of 19 Focus Areas that will be discussed by the OWG in 5 negotiating sessions up to the summer before the OWG will report to the UN General Assembly in September of 2014. Transport is not a focus area in its own right but is mentioned in several of the Focus Areas.
Creating Predictable Financing for Scaling Up of Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
Comments Submitted on behalf of the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) based on inputs by the Deutsche GesellschaftfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).
The comments of the SLoCaT Partnership on financing should be read in conjunction with SLoCaT’s view on the role of sustainable transport in: (a) the adaptat