Transforming Mobility in our Cities David Baker Cadman President ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
Transforming Mobility in our Cities
David Baker Cadman
President
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
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Urban areas hold the future of our planet
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Automobile dependence has costs
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Economic Loss
• Annual Loss of GDP 100 Bn
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• ¼ Emission are from
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• Annual Congestion cost in
Asia is 2 – 5% of GDP
• 80% of pollution is from
urban transport
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Purpose of cities: for people !P
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Cities are places for
people to dwell
not for automobiles
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Decisions our city
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define the future
of our cities
ICLEI supports..
…socially inclusive, environmentally
sustainable, economically feasible urban
mobility.
EcoMobility
EcoMobility Alliance• Is a select group of ambitious cities that have achieved excellent results in certain areas of sustainable mobility
• Aims to reach similar results in other EcoMobility fields as a way to increase their share of non-motorised or public transport
• Vision of vibrant cities where citizens and organisations can access goods, services, and information in a sustainableway
• ServiceOriented Structure
• Collective Learning Exercises
• Peer-to-Peer Exchanges
• Joint Program of Activities
• Cities help each other to reach self-set goals
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The Result
Other areasEcoMobility team at ICLEI also works on
the topics like
• Mobility and Health
• Measuring transport performance in
cities
• Benchmarking urban mobility
• Capacity building of local government
officials
• Low Carbon Urban Mobility plans
Shifting to EcoMobility is
possible Through
• Strong and determined leadership
• Able technical support
• Increased awareness of policy makers and public
• Support from like-minded counterparts
You are invited!
More information: worldcongress2015.iclei.org
Members – 53 Ahmedabad
Bhavnagar
Bhopal
Bhubaneshwar
Chandrapur
Coimbatore
North Delhi
Gandhinagar
Guntur
Gurgaon
Guwahati
Gwalior
Howrah
Hyderabad
Jabalpur
Jamnagar
Kalyan Dombivli
Kolhapur
Kolkata
Kota
Madurai
Mumbai
Mysore
Nagpur
Pune
Rajahmundry
Rajkot
Salem
Shimla
Surat
Tenali
Thane
Tiruchirapally
Tirupati
Vadodara
Vijayawada
Vishakhapatnam
AIILSG
Matale
Kandy
Kurunegala
MUAN
Kathmandu
Pokhara
Lalitpur
Hetauda
Rajshahi
Dhaka
Barisal
Phuentsholing
Thimphu
India
Bangladesh Bhutan
Nepal
Sri LankaMaldivesMale
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