Position Paper on Financing Sustainable Transport by High-Level Advisory Group
Several SLoCaT members have contributed to the Position Paper on Financing Sustainable Transport by the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAGST).
New World Bank Initiative Aims to Transform Transport and ICT Project Evaluation to Increase Value of Investment
According to a recent article by the World Bank, multilateral lending for transport amounts to 29% of multilateral development bank assistance, only 0.4% of all impact evaluations have transport as a core topic, and only 2.5% include Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
SLoCaT Partnership is Collaborating with the Transformative Actions Program (TAP) At COP 21
The SLoCaT Partnership is pleased to announce that it has joined the Transformative Actions Program (TAP) as a partner.
The TAP, coordinated by ICLEI, aims to accelerate implementation of climate action of local and subnational governments by scaling up their direct investments and engagement in national and global mechanisms.
Multilateral Development Banks provided $6.3 billion to climate finance for sustainable transport in 2014, accounting for 23% of total portfolio
The recently released 2014 Joint report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance indicates that multilateral development banks (MDBs), including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment
Transport Experts Discuss Role of Private Sector Financing for Sustainable Transport
27 Experts on Transport and Sustainable Development from 9 different countries in the Asia-Pacific region took part on June 4 -5, 2015 in the “Hong Kong Round Table on Private Sector Financing for Sustainable Transport”.
Latest ODI annual report concludes that 60% (US$ 503mil) of urban climate finance has gone to transport
The Overseas development institute (ODI) has released their annual report, Climate finance for cities: How Can International Climate Funds Support Low Carbon Resilient Urban Development. Succintly, the report concludes that transport is a key factor in urban development and has been the focus of climate financing from institutions since 2010.
UN Secretary-General urges transport ministers to act on climate change
Leipzig- May 27, 2015
Ban Ki-moon: “It is time to reshape the world’s transport systems”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the world’s transport ministers to accelerate efforts to combat climate change and “find new green solutions”.
Habitat 3 PrepCom 2– Opportunities for Sustainable Mobility
By Holger Dalkmann and Alyssa Fischer from WRI Ross Center of Sustainable Cities
SLoCaT Climate Finance Transport Database: Slow Progress in Scaling-up Low Carbon Transport through Climate Finance
[ updated November 2, 2016]
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