Action and Advocacy for Sustainable Transport : Recent and Ongoing World Bank Efforts

During its 2014–15 fiscal year, the World Bank’s transport strategy focused on sustainability as part of a broader effort to eradicate poverty, raise shared prosperity, and tackle climate change. As articulated by the UN Secretary General’s High-Le...

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Main Authors:	Guislain, Pierre, Irigoyen, Jose Luis
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	sustainable development public transport urban transport greenhouse gas emissions road safety employment
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26682078/action-advocacy-sustainable-transport-recent-ongoing-world-bank-efforts http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24958

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description	During its 2014–15 fiscal year, the World Bank’s transport strategy focused on sustainability as part of a broader effort to eradicate poverty, raise shared prosperity, and tackle climate change. As articulated by the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport, sustainability encompasses heightened access in rural and landlocked areas, low-carbon solutions in cities, and world trade and growth stimulated by investments in infrastructure, inter-modality, and digital and low-carbon technologies. The World Bank’s new commitments in fiscal year 2015 reflected this convergence, and its operational focus has been backed by strong advocacy on transport issues in recent global conferences and high-level summits.
format	Brief
author	Guislain, Pierre Irigoyen, Jose Luis
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title	Action and Advocacy for Sustainable Transport : Recent and Ongoing World Bank Efforts
title_short	Action and Advocacy for Sustainable Transport : Recent and Ongoing World Bank Efforts
title_full	Action and Advocacy for Sustainable Transport : Recent and Ongoing World Bank Efforts
title_fullStr	Action and Advocacy for Sustainable Transport : Recent and Ongoing World Bank Efforts
title_full_unstemmed	Action and Advocacy for Sustainable Transport : Recent and Ongoing World Bank Efforts
title_sort	action and advocacy for sustainable transport : recent and ongoing world bank efforts
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26682078/action-advocacy-sustainable-transport-recent-ongoing-world-bank-efforts http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24958
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Action and Advocacy for Sustainable Transport : Recent and Ongoing World Bank Efforts

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