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Public Transport Declaration on Climate Leadership (UITP)

UITP’s Declaration on Climate Leadership is one of a handful of transport collaborative actions recognised by the Agreement’s partnership mechanism and demonstrates the sector’s commitment to climate change and achieving net neutrality.

The Declaration wants to show that climate action with public transport is possible by implementing climate projects around the world which helps build momentum towards raising climate ambition of countries and cities towards achieving a climate-neutral and resilient world.

Our advocacy work at UITP demonstrates how the public transport sector is making an essential and positive contribution to the SDG Agenda by making cities a better places to live, enhancing people’s quality of lives and protecting the environment. We encourage our members to work with us on sustainability as much as possible – from integrating sustainability principles into their business practices with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and ensuring their operations provide their citizens with access to a full range of urban opportunities open to them which enhances their quality of lives. The links between climate change and sustainable development are intertwined. By setting global initiatives and campaigns to raise awareness of public transport’s and members’ contribution to the climate agenda at the annual climate talks (COP) it not only raises the profile of the sector but highlights to key policy makers the need to invest in the sector. It’s through our work on sustainability that we find ourselves in the global spotlight more often. Most recently, by connecting our sector with the SDGs and climate action we have shown the many ways in which great public transport helps to deliver cleaner air in our cities. By encouraging decision makers to include public transport in their policy agendas, we can better meet the targets set on the SDGs and climate action at all levels. From UITP, to our members, all the way to national governments. Sustainable Development means collaborating with our members on all of the measures it takes to achieve lasting change. This includes assessing the progress being made on reducing carbon footprints, lowering emissions around the world and showing what strong urban mobility can do for achieving healthier city living. We can’t do this without our members. We can only be sustainable together.