Two Years In — How Are the World's Multilateral Development Banks Doing in Delivering on their $175 Billion Pledge for More Sustainable Transport?
By Michael Replogle and Cornie Huizenga
Michael Replogle, Managing Director for Policy and Founder, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, and Cornie Huizenga, Secretary General of the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport, both serve as observers to the Technical Working Group of MDB Working Group on Sustainable Transport
SLoCaT Partnership presents draft comments on Zero Draft of Addis Ababa Accord for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development
Shanghai-March 24, 2015
The Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport is posting the following interim assessment of the zero draft of the Addis Ababa Accord, with a more formal response to follow after further consultation with SLoCaT Partnership members.
SLoCaT Partnership asks UN Member States to Strengthen the Prominence of Sustainable Transport in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Shanghai, 20 March 2015
Post-2015 policy briefing focuses on road safety in the SDGs
March 5th, 2015- New York, USA
ADP Meeting in Geneva Generates Momentum towards Agreement at COP21 but (still) Offers no Clear Perspective for Transport
Shanghai- March 4th, 2015
The Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) and Bridging the Gap Initiative (BtG) launched a report today summarizing the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, Session 2-8 which took place from February 8th to 13th in Geneva, Switzerland.
Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform can reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Globally by 6-13%
A new report from the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Global Subsidies Initiative of IISD finds that the removal of fossil-fuel subsidies to consumers (US$ 543 billion in 2014) and to society could reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by between 6-13% by 2050.
UNESCAP Committee on Transport publishes report of the 4th Session
The fourth session of the United Nations Economic Commisssion on Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP) Committee on Transport took place on 15-17 October 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Committee session reviewed national, sub-regional and regional progress in transport, and to discuss the ways to address common challenges and potential for future direction of the secretariat’s work.