[sustran] Final report of the WBCSD Sustainable Mobility Project to
be launched in July
Arndt at wbcsd.org
Arndt at wbcsd.org
Fri Jun 4 18:36:04 JST 2004
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Geneva, 4 June 2004 - "Mobility 2030: Meeting the Challenge to
Sustainability" will be launched in the European Market on 5 July 2004 in
Brussels, Belgium. Many leading figures from the automotive and oil
industries will attend the launch event, hosted by WBCSD President Bjoern
Stigson. Mrs Margot Wallstrom, the EU's Commissioner for the Environment,
is the guest of honor at a stakeholder dialogue during the afternoon of 5
July.
Mr Louis Schweitzer, President of sponsoring company Renault, will deliver
the keynote speech at the gathering. Sir Charles Nicholson of BP and the
Chairman of the project's working will present the report to the Brussels'
press corps. Bjorn Stigson, project director Per Sandberg, and lead
consultant George Eads will be on hand to answer questions from
journalists.
"After four years of work, we now have the texts approved and at the
printer. This was no small task with 12 companies wishing to sign off the
report but we have achieved a remarkable consensus with our seven goals or
conclusions", says Per Sandberg,
"Publishing the final report is of course not the end of the story," he
continues."It is the beginning of our putting the case for change to
ensure that road transport will be sustainable one day in the future. We
cannot continue to live the way we do now if we all want to have a
sustainable future."
The next stage of the project will be handled by Mr K. Yoshida, who has
been seconded by Toyota to the WBCSD in Geneva. With the assistance of
Project Coordinator Claudia Schweizer, they will act as a clearing house
for requests and will match subject-matter experts from the various
sponsors to the requests. The WBCSD team also anticipates a substantial
interest from academics and transportation specialists as this report is
arguably the most comprehensive study ever carried out on road
transportation.
The Brussels launch on 5 July is the first of the regional launches of the
reports to take place. The Japanese launch will follow later in the week
and the US launch will take place in Detroit on 20 July 2004.
Distribution of the full report in English will start later in the summer
and readers who would like a copy should send an e-mail Claudia Schweizer
(schweizer at wbcsd.org) with their name and address.
Further information about the launch events will soon be available on the
WBCSD website and will be distributed in the Sustainable Mobility
newsletter (http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=w&id=NjE).
Contact
Claudia Schweizer
Project Coordinator
E-mail: schweizer at wbcsd.org
Tel: +41-22-839-3150
Further information
Subscribe to the Sustainable Mobility newsletter
(http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=w&id=NjE)
Mobility 2001 - World mobility at the end of the twentieth century and its
sustainability
(http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/uu8taBpoTDXkvBiJHuaU/english_full_report.pdf)
The Sustainable Mobility Project - July 2002 Progress Report
(http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/c90I7QagRwv0QWQvRljH/20020724_mobility.pdf)
Thorsten Arndt
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