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Promotion of non-motorised transport

  • Sustainable Travel in Municipality of Örnsköldsvik

    Objective
    Mitigation

    In Örnsköldsvik we prioritize sustainable travels and the goal is highlight and use sustainable travel habits in Örnsköldsvik, for example to choose active transportation such as walking and cycling. It may also be to commute by carpooling, or go by public transport such as train or bus. Or best of all not to travel at all. Instead we use Webb- or telephone meetings when it is possible. The municipality's new Bicycle Plan and parking strategy shows the long-term jobs performed in sustainable travel.

  • Transport Demand Management

    Reducing travel needs
    Sectors
    Transport
    Objective
    Mitigation

    An important way to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that transport produces is to encourage and enable people to travel less. People travel less overall when they switch from private vehicles to public transport, walking or cycling, for reasons that will be explained. They travel less if their work is closer; if shops, health services and education are closer; and if family, friends and leisure activities are as well. They travel less if several purposes of travel can be covered in one trip, which is more likely if the places they need to visit are closer.

  • Public transport

    Public transport
    Sectors
    Transport
    Objective
    Mitigation

    Public transport (mass transit) is critical to the proper functioning of any city, town or rural area. A range of transit modes offer different capacity opportunities, and therefore the potential for high or low impact on car use. Higher capacity systems cost more to put in, but offer much more potential reduction in total transport costs and greenhouse gas emissions. The social, economic and environmental costs of not having an efficient mass transit system never go away, so it is really a case of stemming these costs earlier or later.

  • Global Environment Centre Foundation

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    Knowledge partner
    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Japan
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Knowledge Partner
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Forestry
    Transport
    Waste management

    The Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC) is an entity that supports the UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC), based in Japan.

  • Leila Community Bike Workshops (LCBW)

    Publication date
    Objective
    Mitigation
    Sectors
    Transport
    Approach
    Endogenous technologies
    Gender

    Description of the project: The LCBW are a women-led,  accessible bicycle mechanic workshops. The workshops develop selfreliance and build independent lives for women and LGBTQ people in the deprived south Tel Aviv-Yaffa community. The project ensures 1,350 beneficiaries (mainly women) from poor communities are newly mobile and have the skills to stay independently mobile,  so contributing to their safe and harassment free mobility across  the city, as well as their economic status, productivity, physical and  mental health.

  • Climate change vulnerability assessment: Greater Port Vila

    Publication date
    Objective
    Adaptation
    Approach
    Disaster risk reduction
    Community based

    This reports on a series of assessments made for the city of Port Vila, Vanuatu to measure the baseline for understanding critical social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities and range of risks in the face of climate change.

    This report is based on knowledge generated through three visits to the city by both report authors, a variety of engagement activity (interviews, workshops and a transect walk), elicitation of local/traditional knowledge, collating and analysing available primary data, and a comprehensive desk-top analysis of relevant literature.

  • Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

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    Country of registration
    Germany
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Energy efficiency
    Industry
    Transport
    Waste management

    Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy  is a research and academic organization established in 1991 with the mission to undertake research and develops models, strategies and instruments for transitions to a sustainable development at local, national and international level.

  • Women: The Risk Managers in Natural Disasters

    Publication date
    Objective
    Adaptation
    Approach
    Gender

    This paper highlights the unique role played by women during and after the onset of a natural disaster, with specific reference to Sri Lanka and the South Asian region. Sri Lanka, as an island in the Bay of Bengal, is frequently hit by floods, droughts and landslides, with the government response being more geared towards charity and relief rather than preparedness and disaster management.