[sustran] Environmentally Sustainable Transport and Climate Change: Experiences and lessons from community initiatives

[Sujit Patwardhan]

8 May 2007



This publication contains a case study of our project (pages 27 to 29) on
"Sustainable Urban Transportation".

With regards,
--
Sujit

Sujit Patwardhan
Parisar/PTTF
Pune, India




Environmentally Sustainable Transport and Climate Change: Experiences and
lessons from community initiatives

This publication is a result of a review of 65 sustainable transport
community projects funded by the GEF Small Grants Programme. Lessons and
experiences documented in the publication demonstrate that community
initiatives play an important role in testing new approaches, raising
awareness of new ideas, piloting innovative strategies, and informing and
stimulating policy dialogue in a cost-effective way.

For instance, community initiatives with local civil society organizations
in Pune, India, prompted a policy shift by the city towards supporting bus
rapid transit and the development of pedestrian and cycling infrastructure.
In Chiang Mai, Thailand, the municipal government is re-allocating a portion
of its transport funds towards non-motorized transport infrastructure. In
other cases (e.g., Sri Lanka, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Jordan, Egypt, and
Lithuania), sustainable transport community projects have resulted in
government policy shifts and stimulated commercial activities, leading to
sustainable strategies for addressing local transport challenges while
benefiting the global climate.

The publication was first published and launched at the twelfth session of
the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP-12) and
second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP-2) in Nairobi,
Kenya, 6-17 November 2006

<http://sgp.undp.org/img/GEF_SGP_Sustainable_Transport_and_Climate_Change.pdf>
*Environmentally Sustainable Transport and Climate Change: Experiences and
lessons from community
initiatives*<http://www.undp.org/sgp/download/GEF_SGP_Sustainable_Transport_and_Climate_Change.pdf>(PDF,
1.44 MB)


-- 
------------------------------------------------------
Sujit Patwardhan
sujit at vsnl.com
sujitjp at gmail.com

"Yamuna",
ICS Colony,
Ganeshkhind Road,
Pune 411 007
India
Tel: 25537955
-----------------------------------------------------
Hon. Secretary:
Parisar
www.parisar.org
------------------------------------------------------
Founder Member:
PTTF
(Pune Traffic & Transportation Forum)
www.pttf.net
------------------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://list.jca.apc.org/public/sustran-discuss/attachments/20070509/bd0e345c/attachment.html