United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the membership of a High-level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport to provide recommendations on sustainable transport actionable at global, national, local and sector levels.
Michael Cramer, an MEP for Alliance ’90/The Greens, was elected chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism on July 7 for a two-and-a-half year term. It is expected that with the leadership of Cramer, Europe’s transport future will become greener and more sustainable.
Shanghai, July 24 2014
The final report of the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which concluded in the early hours of 19 July in New York, represents a major breakthrough for the sustainable transport community.
The 1st Ministerial and Policy Conference on Sustainable Transport in Africa is designed to provide a platform for high-level attention and policy dialogue on access to environmentally s
Shanghai, China
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.
Shanghai, China
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 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.
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.
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