New Sourcebook Module on Urban Transport and Energy Efficiency
Considering the challenges of limited oil resources, increasing energy prices, climate change, environmental pollution and health risks, it is essential to establish an efficient transport system that meets demand, but consumes as little energy as possible.
IDB Approves Loan to Modernize Public Transportation in Colombia
23 February 2012: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$105 million loan for the city of Cali, Colombia, to complete the modernization of its public transportation system.
CODATU
Cooperation for urban mobility in the developing world (CODATU) was created in 1980 following a seminal international conference on urban transport in Dakar, Senegal. CODATU is an international non-profitmaking organization whose aim is to promote international exchanges between the various players in the transport and urban mobility sector: public authorities, companies, and urban transport research institutes and professionals.
Including Sustainable Mobility in “The Future We Want” Zero Draft Outcome Document Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Letter to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development focal points for promoting sustainable mobility as a priority area for sustainble development.
Toolkit for Greening Asia's Truck Fleets Launched
8 February 2012, Manila – The Green Trucks Toolkit was developed by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) with support from Asian Development Bank to assist trucks companies reduce fuel use and emissions from their truck fleets.
Transport CSD Submission SloCaT Partnership
On behalf of the Partnership for Sustainable Low Carbon Transport1 and various undersigned agencies, multilateral development banks, non-governmental organizations, associations, and businesses, the following statement is submitted for consideration as input to the compilation document which helps to develop the zero draft of the declaration for the Rio+20 Global Conference on Sustainable Development.
Press Release: Groups Call for Global Reset on Transportation at Rio+20 Meet
To help shape the outcome of the Rio+20 conference the SLoCaT Partnership today released its call to the United Nations urging adoption by the Rio+20 conference of a Sustainable Development Goal that calls on the world to “Achieve sustainable transport that enables universal access to safe, clean, and affordable mobility”.
SLoCaT input to CDM Policy Dialog
SLoCaT with the help of ADB, CAI-Asia, ECN and ITDP made a submission to the policy dialog on CDM. The inputs, and a summary of them, will be shared with the panel that will conduct the dialogue and will be considered by the Board at its sixty-sixth meeting early in 2012.
UN SG Ban Ki-moon includes sustainable transport in his 5 Year Action Plan
One of the key elements of his plans is to forge consensus around a post-2015 sustainable development framework and implement it. This would include defining a new generation of sustainable development goals building on the MDGs and outline a road map for consideration by Member States.