About the Initiative

Transport is a major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting sector (13 percent of global GHG emissions) and its importance will increase in the next years.

Since 1990 CO2 emissions from transport have been growing instead of declining. Reduction of emissions in developed countries and slow down of rapid motorization in developing countries are necessary to prevent dangerous climate change: Transport must be part of the solution, i.e. any international agreement should recognize the sector, provide more incentives to move to a low carbon transport model and thus help governments move in this direction.

The initiative "Bridging the Gap: Pathways for Transport in a Post 2012 process" (www.transport2012.org) is comprised of GIZ, TRL, Veolia Transdev, ITDP and UITP. The initiative was formed at COP14 in Poznan to encourage international recognition that land transport should play a more important role addressing climate change in the post 2012 agreement and to bridge the gap between this sector and climate policy.

The value of the work of the initiative is reinforced by the positive feedback from workshops, a large number of subscribers to our newsletter and the large amount of traffic to our website (www.transport2012.org) as well as the numerous visitors at the stands in Barcelona, Copenhagen, Bonn, Tianjin and Cancun.

Information Material about the initiative

Bridging the Gap released a flyer and a brochure about their objectices and activities.

Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport

Several international organisations have decided to join forces for the recognition that transport can and should play in mitigating GHG emissions. All Partners of the Bridging the Gap initiative are members of the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (www.slocat.net) launched in September 2009 in Bangkok and including already more than 50 other organisations.

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