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Making Sustainable Development Real for All with Universal Access to Safe, Clean, Affordable Transport

One billion people in the world live with disability. On 19-20 July, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) organized the “DESA Forum: Dialogue on the post-2015 Development Framework and Disability” at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Forum brought together a wide range of stakeholders to discuss a way forward for inclusion of disability in the development agenda and frameworks.

23 July 2013

Sustainable Development in Action Report on Voluntary Commitments

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development, published Sustainable Development in Action, as a special edition of the SD in Action Newsletter.

17 July 2013

UNFCCC's Momentum for Change 2012 Report Focuses on the Urban Poor

The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the 2012 report on the Momentum for Change Initiative. The report features nine experiences that contribute to address climate change while improving livelihoods and living conditions in developing countries’ urban areas.

15 July 2013

New IEA Report shows benefits of improved energy efficiency of urban transport systems

PARIS, 10 July – Policies that improve the energy efficiency of urban transport systems could help save as much as USD 70 trillion in spending on vehicles, fuel and transportation infrastructure between now and 2050, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

10 July 2013

EMBARQ announces 2013 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship Recipients

EMBARQ and the Lee Schipper family are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship. The sustainable transport scholarship has been awarded to Sudhir Gota and to Fei Li to finance their research in advancing bold solutions to improve transport quality in cities. The scholarship was established in 2012 to celebrate the vision and bold challenges to conventional wisdom that EMBARQ founder and recognized researcher Lee Schipper contributed to the field of sustainable transport and energy efficiency.

9 July 2013

UN Under-Secretary-General Spells Out Next Steps to 'The Future We Want'

UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Wu Hongbo, in an editorial in the ‘Huffington Post,’ has outlined next steps following on the outcome of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), which concluded a year earlier in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1 July 2013

Bridging the Gap Overview of transport NAMA Submissions to UNFCCC

On June 28th, Bridging the Gap released a newly updated publication “NAMA Submissions to the UNFCCC: An Overview from a transport perspective” reviewing the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) intentions communicated to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from a land transport perspective.

1 July 2013

The GEF Council approved a World Bank Sustainable Transport project in Russia

On June 20, 2013, the 44th meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)’s Governing Council approved a $369.82 million Work Program, consisting of 48 project concepts and two programmatic approaches. The Work Program includes a World Bank sustainable transport project in Russian Federation titled “National Urban Transport Improvement Project.” For the project, the GEF finances 9.1 million USD grant with co-finance of 270 million USD.

27 June 2013

ODI proposes Transport SDG: Realise universal access to sustainable transport mobility

Many of the proposals for post-2015 goals and targets appear ambitious, but what would it take to achieve them? This ODI paper assesses what is needed to achieve goals for universal and sustainable access to infrastructure, specifically water, energy and transport.

26 June 2013

UN Reports GHG Emissions on Journey Towards Climate Neutrality

The UN has launched the fourth edition of Moving Towards a Climate Neutral UN, the annual progress report on the UN’s journey towards climate neutrality, which details the UN’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2011 and some of the activities undertaken in 2012 to reduce them.

25 June 2013

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