SLOCAT is pleased to welcome Life-Links to our global Partnership. Their focus on the resilience of transport and logistics brings a dimension to our work that the transport and climate conversation too often leaves out: the movement of goods and the communities and economies that depend on it.
Life-Links is a global non-profit working to turn supply chains into a force for climate action and local sustainable development. Through the Life-Links Framework, they bring together companies, governments, development organisations and other stakeholders to assess risks and to co-develop and co-invest in solutions that make critical transport and logistics links more resilient, sustainable and inclusive.
What sets the work apart is that it is usable. Supply chain resilience is a famously fragmented problem, spread across jurisdictions, operators and balance sheets, and it tends to stay abstract. Life-Links has translated it into a framework that can be applied to real supply chains. Released ahead of COP30, it is already informing pilot applications in agricultural supply chains connecting East Africa and Europe, a first step towards solutions that work for communities, companies, countries and consumers at the same time.
“Joining SLOCAT at the start of the UN Decade of Sustainable Transport comes at exactly the right time. Life-Links can help strengthen climate resilience within the sustainable transport agenda, while the partnership supports our work to put resilient transport and logistics at the heart of supply chain resilience. Together, we can contribute to the UN Decade’s aim to transform how the world moves people and goods in ways that are inclusive, low carbon and resilient.”Sophie Punte, Co-founder and CEO, Life-Links
“Freight is where transport’s climate story gets uncomfortable, and where the resilience gap is widest. Life-Links has done the hard work of making that gap something governments and companies can actually act on. Their arrival strengthens the Partnership’s ability to speak to how goods move, not only how people do.” Carly Gilbert-Patrick, Secretary General, SLOCAT Partnership
Their arrival is well timed for us too. The UN Decade of Sustainable Transport covers people and goods alike, but the goods half of that mandate still lacks the evidence, the frameworks and the accountability mechanisms that the passenger side has slowly built up. Adding a partner working precisely on that gap sharpens what our Partnership can bring to the Decade, and to the wider conversation on adaptation and resilience where transport remains under-represented.
We look forward to working with Life-Links to ensure that resilient, low-carbon logistics is treated as core climate infrastructure rather than a private-sector footnote.
More about Life-Links: life-links.org
