by Alice Yiu | Jun 2, 2015 | News
The Inter-American development bank (IDB) has released a publication on climate change covering the Latin America and Carribean (LAC) region on risk management for the transportation sector. The LAC region has a long history of coping with natural hazards such as...
by talya.enriquez | May 27, 2015 | News
What can the transport sector do to make COP 21 a success? Leipzig 27th May – “Actions to address Climate Change to be agreed upon by the global community at the December 2015 Climate Conference (COP21) in Paris, France need to include real action on transport, if we...
by talya.enriquez | May 27, 2015 | News
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”. “I urge all of you...
by talya.enriquez | May 25, 2015 | News
The latest estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate that the transport sector contributed nearly 23% of global CO2 emissions from fuel combustion in 2012. Transport, with an average annual growth rate of 2.0% from 1990-2012, is among the fastest...
by talya.enriquez | May 21, 2015 | News
By Holger Dalkmann and Alyssa Fischer from WRI Ross Center of Sustainable Cities While the Sustainable Development Goals, COP21, and the Road Safety Summit this year have already received a lot of attention, further attention needs to be given to Habitat 3, the third...
