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Jun 16, 2014

At the the Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the SLoCaT Partnership facilited the submission of 17 Voluntary Commitments on Sustainable Transport.  The Future We Want, the outcome document of Rio+20 says: “We welcome the commitments voluntarily entered into at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and throughout 2012 by all stakeholders and their networks to implement concrete policies, plans, programmes, projects and actions to promote sustainable development and poverty eradication. In June 2013, on the first anniversary of Rio+20 six additional voluntary commitments were made for sustainable transport. 

The twenty-three commitments are presented below organized by thematic clusters.  Please click on the name of the commitment, to go to the invidividual commitment page. 

Policy & Financing

 

Urban Transport

Bus-Rapid Transit

   
   
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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