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C40: Green & Healthy Streets Accelerator

As mayors of some of the world’s great cities, we are committed to transforming them into greener, healthier, and more prosperous places to live. Our streets must be safe and accessible for everybody and our air must be clean and free from harmful emissions. This will improve the quality of life for all citizens, and help tackle the global threat of climate change. We pledge to transition to Fossil-Fuel-Free Streets by: Procuring, with our partners, only zero-emission buses from 2025; and ensuring a major area of our city is zero emission by 2030.To meet this commitment, we will: Transform our cities through people-friendly planning policies; Increase the rates of walking, cycling and the use of public and shared transport that is accessible to all citizens; Reduce the number of polluting vehicles on our streets and transition away from vehicles powered by fossil fuels; Lead by example by procuring zero emission vehicles for our city fleets as quickly as possible; Collaborate with suppliers, fleet operators and businesses to accelerate the shift to zero emissions vehicles and reduce vehicle miles in our cities; Publicly report every two years on the progress the cities are making towards these goals.

Activity period 2017–2020
Last CoAct update n/a
Web URL https://www.c40.org/accelerators/green-healthy-streets/
Output effectiveness
0.65
Accountability Index
0.50
Inclusiveness Index
0.53
Capacity Index
0.67
Num. actors 35
Functions Knowledge dissemination, Technical implementation, Campaigning, Participatory management, Policy planning
SDGs 3 7 11 13
Themes human settlements, transport
Policy focus Mainly mitigation
Sectors Transporation and storage
Implementation countries Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea (the Republic of), Mexico, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation (the), South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland (the), United States of America (the)
Target Target type
Procuring, with our partners, only zero-emission buses from 2025 Net zero target
and ensuring a major area of our city is zero emission by 2030. Net zero target
Signatory cities will make one large area of each city zero emission by 2030 Emission reduction target
Signatory cities will procure only eletric (zero emission) buses from 2025 Emission reduction target

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