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22 August 2025

Walkable Kochi: Putting People Before Cars

How data and community voices are reshaping the city’s streets

In Kochi, walking often meant broken sidewalks and unsafe crossings. The Walkable Kochi initiative, led by GIZ under SUM-ACA, is changing that. By combining data with citizen voices, the city is creating safer, cleaner,...

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15 August 2025

Shockproof Your Transport Policy

The role of science and evidence

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7 August 2025

VIDEO: Chile’s Vision for Driving Sustainability in Transport

Interview with Minister Juan Carlos Muñoz

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5 November 2021

China’s Updated NDCs and 1+N Policy System for Carbon Neutrality

On 28 October 2021, three days ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties...
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29 October 2021

Key Insights About Transport’s Role in National Climate Plans

The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UNFCCC in Glasgow starts these days and...
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28 October 2021

GIZ TRANSPORT AT COP26

The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)...
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27 October 2021

Building Capacities for Electromobility: International Course for Latin America

GIZ launched the new International Course on Electromobility
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21 October 2021

Setting Sustainable Transport on the Agenda at this Year’s COP26 in Glasgow

This article is part of our #StoriesofChange where we profile the work of our partner countries...
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19 October 2021

A long way to go: Striving for climate neutral aviation

If the CO2 emissions of the aviation sector were measured as a country, it would be...
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15 October 2021

Impulses for Green Recovery and the Transition of Transport

Virtual event by GIZ and UBA on 28 October 2021 4 pm CEST We know: Climate...
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14 October 2021

Future of Electric Mobility – Driving EV Vision Towards a Sustainable Development

GIZ, jointly with CharIN, is organizing a half-day convention held under the 6th Electric Vehicle Association...
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13 October 2021

How to achieve carbon free transport in Asia by 2050

I personally have the vision that the children of today will take their own children to...
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13 October 2021

GIZ at 2nd United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference

The second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference takes place October 14-16 in Beijing, China. It...
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1 October 2021

Actions to move sustainably in Latin America

This article is part of our #StoriesofChange where we profile the work of our partner countries...
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1 October 2021

Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System for Transport in Viet Nam

Supporting the effective evaluation of transport decarbonisation A well-developed MRV system and good data collection is...
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29 September 2021

Why is a bank interested in e-buses?

The electrification of bus fleets combines the benefits of public transport and electric mobility in terms...
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29 September 2021

Financing the Intermodal Freight Transport in Java, Indonesia

The Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia and GIZ through TRANSfer III Project are...
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23 September 2021

Towards a Regional Vision for Sustainable Transport in Latin America and the Caribbean

The latest IPCC report reinforces that the climate crisis is the greatest threat to humanity. It...
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23 September 2021

Women in Green Hydrogen tackles Inequality in the Sector

Women constitute just 20 % of panel speakers at green hydrogen conferences. Founded in 2020, Women...
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21 September 2021

Peer Exchange on Sustainable Transport Transition in Africa, Asia and Latin America

This article is part of our #StoriesofChange where we profile the work of our partner countries...
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14 September 2021

Strengthening Urban Connectivity through ‘Buy the Service Program’ in Indonesia

The potential for population and urbanisation in accelerating the economic growth is constrained by traffic congestion....
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14 September 2021

Road Map Policy for Truck Fleet Modernisation in Indonesia

The cooperation between GIZ and Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia through the TRANSfer...
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10 September 2021

Content Overview SUMP Toolkit

General Information and Outreach This introductory chapter provides information on the concept of SUMPs, its global...
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30 August 2021

Cycling Study Will Promote Sustainable Mobility in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area

This article is part of our #StoriesofChange where we profile the work of our partner countries...
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20 August 2021

Climate Change: “Code Red for Humanity” Calls for Ambitious NDCs

Thanks to a landmark report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) no doubt...
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10 August 2021

The Role of Green Hydrogen and Power-to-X in Defossilising Transport

The Hydrogen Hours and panel discussion with the World Economic Forum  part of Transport and Climate Change Week 2021 addressed...
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10 August 2021

New Training for Bankable Sustainable Mobility in Latin America

The formulation of bankable climate initiatives is one of the main challenges in Latin America to...
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2 August 2021

Raising the Voice in South East Europe on Transport

This year, Transport and Climate Change Week 2021 brought together experts and decision-makers from all around...
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2 August 2021

Four Years of Advancing Climate Strategies in Kenya’s Transport Sector

This article is part of our #StoriesofChange where we profile the work of our partner countries...
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29 July 2021

Connecting Global Realities with Global Discourse

In a joint initiative of the Urban Mobility sector of the EUROCLIMA+ programme and the Advancing...
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21 July 2021

Raising the Latin American Voice on Transport

The fourth version of the GIZ Transport and Climate Change Week created a relevant space for...
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12 July 2021

What You Need to Know About Bus Rapid Transit

With the exponential growth of motorisation, cities have leaned towards Urban Mass Public Transport Systems to...
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12 July 2021

TCCW 2021: Four publications, a tracker, a novel and a network

The Transport and Climate Change Week 2021 was not only full of interesting sessions, workshop and...
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8 July 2021

Getting a Glimpse at Transport of the Future

Imagine the movement of goods and of people in a future less than 30 years from...
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5 July 2021

Out now! SLOCAT Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report – 2nd edition

Moving the world towards zero transport emissions requires fast and fundamental changes at all scales. Yet...
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2 July 2021

Urban Transport in the Covid-19 Pandemic Context

Peru is the third most affected country in Latin America after Argentina and Colombia due to...
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2 July 2021

Morocco NDC Update: New Ambitions for the Transport Sector

Morocco updated its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
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29 June 2021

The Role of NUMPs in Promoting Electric Mobility in Uruguay

Due to urban growth of recent decades, governments of all regions have pointed out the relevance...
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25 June 2021

A Global Dialogue on Decarbonising Transport

After one week filled with inputs, knowledge exchange, and fruitful discussions, this year’s Transport and Climate...
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22 June 2021

New Guide to Structure MRV Scheme for E-buses

The guide is available in English and Spanish, and is based in the learnings on the...
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21 June 2021

Future Ahoy!

“Abgefahren!”, the award-winning comic on the transport transition by the think tank Agora Verkehrswende and the...
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17 June 2021

New Tool to Assess the Electrification of Public Fleet

The E-bus global tool is now available in Spanish, and soon will include English and French...
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13 June 2021

Transport and Climate Change Week

Building confidence in change  For the fourth time we bring together experts and decision-makers from all around...
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10 June 2021

MobiliseYourCity at the European Development Days

A leading example of European cooperation for sustainable urban mobility Urban mobility is an essential sector...
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18 May 2021

Decarbonising Transport in China | Project Kick-off China component NDC TIA

The Chinese government has made the commitment on carbon peaking and neutrality and is developing a...
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14 May 2021

Supporting the NDC Update in Colombia: an Opportunity to Review Data

In September 2019, Colombia started its process of updating the NDC to the UNFCCC. The update...
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14 May 2021

Explore Transport Targets and Policies in NDCs and LTS

Did you know that only 17 countries include greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for transport in their latest climate strategies even...
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27 April 2021

Electric Mobility and Climate Goals in China

What are the current developments and perspectives of electric vehicles in China? How significant are these...
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16 April 2021

Launch of New Tracker on Climate Ambition in Transport

When: May 11, 3pm, CESTWhere: Virtually Are you interested to know what countries are planning to...
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12 April 2021

Continued Commitment to the Development of Sustainable Urban Transport

Climate change and global warming are challenges in all countries, including Indonesia. One of the main...
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9 April 2021

Tuc Tucs, the Electric Vehicles that Will Help Women Entrepreneurs in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala

Sariah Azucena Susana Caniz Telón gets off the Tuc Tuc with a bundle of bags at...
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31 March 2021

The Council for Decarbonising Transport in Asia

The importance of Asia  Responsible for 27% of global transport emissions, Asia has experienced the strongest growth in transport demand since 2000, with absolute emissions in the...
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18 March 2021

Protected: Council for Decarbonising Transport in Asia – Depository

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16 March 2021

Thailand and Germany Call for Energy and Mobility Transition

On 12 March 2021, German Embassy Bangkok and GIZ joined up to launch the “Moving and...
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12 March 2021

Four Ways How Transport Projects at GIZ are Going #digitalbydefault in 2021

Digitalising tools, a collaboration between the Telekom and GIZ transport projects on exploring AI-solutions for mobility,...
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11 March 2021

NDC TIA Kick-Off Vietnam: “For our climate, transport decarbonisation is key”

On 15 March 2021, Le Anh Tuan, Vice Minister of Transport and Helene Paust, Deputy Head of Development Cooperation of...
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23 February 2021

The Updated NDCs – What Do They Say About Transport?

Already a major contributor to global heating, transport is the sector with the highest forecasted emissions...
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11 February 2021

Financing Mechanism for Intermodal Freight Transport Action Programme in Java, Indonesia

Together with the Indonesian government, the TRANSfer project is working on shifting freight transport from road...
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8 February 2021

Report Launch on E-mobility & Low Carbon Passenger Road Transport in India

“Status quo analysis of various segments of Electric mobility and low carbon passenger road transport in...
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8 February 2021

Costa Rica: Montes de Oca Opens First 4km of Cycle Lane

This article is part of our #StoriesofChange where we profile the work of our partner countries...
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1 February 2021

The Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy of the European Commission: A Critical Assessment

Within the European Union, transport accounts for around a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions (EEA 2020)...
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1 February 2021

Report Launch on Electric Mobility and Low Carbon Passenger Road Transport in India

With almost 5.9 Million km, India has the second largest road network in the world. It...
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20 January 2021

Content Overview NUMP Toolkit

General Information Highlights the relevance of sustainable urban mobility from a societal point of view, introduces...
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13 January 2021

NDC Update Kenya: Enhanced reduction target

The updated NDC sets out two important developments from its first NDC, which was submitted in...
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18 December 2020

En Route to COP26: Transport decarbonisation is essential to green, equitable recovery

Scheduled 12 months prior to the postponed COP26, the event was designed to accelerate collective and...
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15 December 2020

5 years Paris Agreement – 5 years of Action in Transport

Five years have passed since the leaders of 196 nations signed the Paris Agreement and committed...
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15 December 2020

Peer-to-peer dialogues for more climate ambition in transport

“I ask you all to take whatever actions you can, as citizens, experts, managers, and policy...
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15 December 2020

Towards the Promotion of Urban Cycling in Costa Rica

Cycling infrastructure provides a sustainable mobility alternative and encourages more cyclists in urban spaces. Now this...
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15 December 2020

MobiliseYourCity is 5 years old

5 years in review: success worth scaling Launched by France, Germany and the European Union at...
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14 December 2020

One-Stop Knowledge Platform on Green Mobility

Presently, the transport sector contributes to nearly one-fourth of the global carbon dioxide emissions and it...
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3 December 2020

Introducing MobiliseYourCity’s NUMP Guidelines

Global problems, local solutions Interdependency is now the order to the day. Global problems, such as...
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2 December 2020

Toolkit-Launch: Tackling Urban Mobility Challenges

When it comes to the development and implementation of sustainable and environmentally friendly urban transport systems...
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25 November 2020

Launch of Women in Green Hydrogen (WiGH) network

BERLIN, Germany (November 24, 2020) Green Hydrogen – an emerging sector that is heavily dominated by men when it...
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24 November 2020

Coordination and Steering Structure

A tool for the main stakeholders to set up a steering structure for SUMP development and...
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23 November 2020

Contract Models for Public Transport Services

Public service contracts between bus operators and local authorities can be an important lever for improving...
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20 November 2020

Sustainable Urban Transport in the Developing World: Beyond Megacities

This article reviews the potential role and impact of nine commonly considered options when transitioning to...
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20 November 2020

Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans: Implementing the New Urban Agenda

The main goal of the Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) is to assist developing and transitioning...
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20 November 2020

Good Practice SUMPs

This selection of Good Practices offers politicians, officials from local and national governments as well as...
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18 November 2020

Preparing the future generation to solve Thailand’s notorious climate change problem

Each year the Thai Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation hosts the National Science...
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18 November 2020

Moverity: Real World Fuel Economy Database for ASEAN

Using big data to reduce fuel consumption Motor vehicles are one of the biggest sources of...
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17 November 2020

En Route to COP26

From December 1st to 3rd, different sectoral actors gather to discuss strategies for a quick, efficient,...
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13 November 2020

Digital Training on MRV systems in Morocco

Gathering around fourty people online to work on transport data bases and quantify them in a...
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11 November 2020

Guidance on Monitoring of City Bus Operations

No matter the project you want to carry out – monitoring and evaluation represent a vital...
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10 November 2020

Launch of Practitioner Toolkits for Action on Low Carbon Transport

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically...
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5 November 2020

13th EST Forum pre-event

Under the title “Tracking progress in Asia’s transport transformation – Opportunities for linking SDG and NDC...
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2 November 2020

State of Electric Mobility in Kenya

Electric mobility provides a good opportunity for Kenya to reduce emissions from transport (by about 0.6...
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30 October 2020

Digital Library on Green Mobility (DLGM) in India

The Digital Library on Green Mobility (DLGM) portal for Low Carbon Transport, especially Electric Mobility, in...
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22 October 2020

NDC Update Vietnam: Focus on Credibility

This article is part of our #StoriesofChange where we profile the work of our partner countries...
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20 October 2020

Viet Nam kick-starts Transformation of its Transport Sector

“If policy measures are not taken, GHG emissions from the transport sector are expected to triple...
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19 October 2020

ASEAN Smart City Summit 2020

At the ASEAN Smart City Summit on 22 Oct 2020, Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport and the NDC...
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29 September 2020

“This Commitment to Decarbonising Urban Transport is Paying off”

In August 2020, the MobiliseYourCity Partnership published the annual “MobiliseYourCity Global Monitor 2020“. In this interview,...
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25 September 2020

Electric Bus Fleets in Thailand – Managing the Transition

Thailand has been long known for its car industry and has been a supplier to major...
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11 September 2020

Taking a Turn Towards Higher Climate Ambition?

In the run-up to COP 26 and in fulfillment of the Paris Agreement, Parties to the...
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9 September 2020

SUMP Model Terms of Reference

This document constitutes the official model of Terms of Reference for the development of a Sustainable...
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8 September 2020

Morocco’s Transport Sector Facing COVID-19

The Covid-19 crisis is impacting the functioning of our mobility and transport as never before. It...
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24 August 2020

Virtual Kick-off Event: NDC-Transport Initiative for Asia – India Component

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the online kick-off event of the Nationally...
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17 August 2020

User Manual for the MYC Emissions Calculator

This user guide provides an overview of the background, methodology and design of the MobiliseYourCity Emisisons...
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6 August 2020

Taxes and Congestion Charges: Study Identifies Financing Mechanisms for Sustainable Mobility

With the aim of increasing the resources that can be allocated to sustainable urban mobility projects...
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28 July 2020

Towards a Better Normal: Philippine Government reorganises EDSA main road

The Philippine government has for years been studying options to improve people movement along the EDSA,...
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27 July 2020

Green Light for Improving the Efficiency of Freight Transport in Indonesia

The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation’s Directorate General of Land Transportation and GIZ have signed a Cooperation...
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27 July 2020

Content Overview Transparency Toolkit

This content overview helps you navigate through the toolkit. General Information This toolkit on MRV is...
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17 July 2020

How COVID-19 Recovery Plans around the world enhance Transport Climate Ambition

The direction of countries’ COVID-19 recovery plans will determine the world’s climate and sustainable development trajectory...
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17 July 2020

Seven Essentials of Designing and Monitoring a Climate Change Strategy for the Transport Sector

When the Advancing Transport Climate Strategies (TraCS) project started in 2017, the implementation of Kenya’s Climate Change...
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