Transport is a major emitting sector accounting for around 23 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions on a global level. Global demand for transport appears unlikely to decrease in the foreseeable future and rapid motorisation, especially in developing countries, will see fuel demand grow by 40 percent by 2035.
In 2009, UITP launched its PTx2 strategy aimed at doubling the public transport market share by 2025, as a wake-up call to raise awareness of the need to put public transport high on the agenda as a solution to climate change.
At a COP17 side event entitled 'Bridging the Gap between transport and climate policy: time to tackle the transport sector', UITP put forward the argument that, if mean global temperatures are to be stabilised at the levels required to avoid the worst aspects of climate change, we need strong modal shift ambitions away from cars and towards sustainable modes of transport; the science is telling us that this works. Read the full report here.
Source: Reuters, Brussels.
