by SLOCAT | Jul 1, 2013 | News
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...
by talya.enriquez | May 3, 2013 | News
The Urban World 2030 Workshop: Sustainable Transport for Global Development and Climate Protection 2013 was co-organized by Atlantic Council, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) on April...
by SLOCAT | Dec 6, 2012 | News
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UNEP Risø Centre (URC) December’s newsletter includes stories on the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project and electrification in Africa, including efforts within the Sustainable Energy For All Initiative (SE4ALL). The...
by SLOCAT | Nov 23, 2012 | News
The workshop examined approaches to ensure that smallholders are not marginalized by increasing biofuel production for aviation. IFAD highlighted a $12 million initiative on research and development of alternative crops for smallholder biofuel production. They also...
by SLOCAT | Nov 22, 2012 | News
The World Bank and the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) sustainable transport center, EMBARQ, will co-host the 10th annual “Transforming Transportation” event on sustainable transport. The 2013 agenda will discuss, inter alia: capitalizing on the...
