Barbara Stoll – Transport & Environment

More radical, more impatient: How the current crises are fast-forwarding change in European cities

Sam Hargreaves — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:11:15 +0000

It’s not hard to predict that most end-of-year reviews for 2022 will be pretty grim. Stuck between a dragging pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe has not only been suffering dramatic human tragedies, but has also undergone a series of setbacks in its efforts to clean up transport. Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU transport sector have rebounded after a sharp decline at the...

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Change happens when people demand it: the year we built Clean Cities

Diane Vitry — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:44:29 +0000

In late 2020, Clean Cities was just an idea on paper. Less than a year later, the new campaign initiated by T&E has taken on a life of its own, shaping urban mobility across European cities, thanks to the power and beating heart of the grassroots organisations and NGOs at its core. More than 50 European organisations have joined the network, united by the vision to create cities with zero emission...

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2020 brought cleaner skies. Can it stay that way?

fbh-import — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 20:41:50 +0000

Receive them directly in your inbox. Delivered once a week. In 2020 we faced an unprecedented global crisis that affected most aspects of everyday life: our work, our economies and our health. The pandemic has also had a profound impact on our expectations around travel, and we’ve learnt – perhaps the hard way – that in many cases, we don’t need to share a physical space to work together and to...

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