The UN General-Secretary’s new 5-Year Action Agenda identifies sustainable transport as one of 5 building blocks of sustainable development. Yet transport is virtually invisible in the initial framing of Rio+20, the June 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. A growing number of multilateral development banks, bilateral development agencies, NGOs, and private sector actors, among others, are developing their own commitments to recognize and implement sustainable transport.

This event will discuss the critical role of transport in advancing a green economy within the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.  What can the Rio+20 conference contribute to the realization of sustainable mobility especially in the developing world where most of the growth in motorization is currently taking place?

Panelists

Thematic Focus:
This event will discuss transport’s role in advancing a green economy within the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. It will focus on indicators and metrics by which the sustainability of transport investments, programs, and policies can be appraised and how these might be employed to frame commitments by various countries and institutions through the Rio+20 conference.

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