12. Mai 2010

18th Annual meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-18)

Side Event:

sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
in co-operation with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)

held on May 12th, 2010


Getting Transport on Track:
Global Challenges and Initiatives on Technology Innovation


At a global scale transport has been growing steadily since many decades. According to forecasts prepared by the IEA/OECD, both passenger and freight transport will continue to increase primarily in emerging and developing countries. There, transport is a key enabler for welfare and development but existing infrastructure systems are not efficient enough. Providing up-to-date and reliable transport systems
has therefore top priority.

Access to transport systems improves communication, mobility and trade. People will have the opportunity to participate in various activities. The drawback of growing transport is that - despite a broad range of measures to make transport more efficient - the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are continuing to increase. The main challenge is that economy, trade and transport are closely interrelated. Decoupling the energy consumption of transport and the economic growth remains to be solved in order to control the GHG emissions from transport.

The side event, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) in cooperation with the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)”, provided an overview on the global transport development and the related GHG emissions. Two further presentations illustrated new strategies and technologies to reduce the impacts of growing transport activities on global level. BMW introduced the options of electrical propulsion in car mobility. GTZ provided a short report on best practices of public transport projects in South Africa and Indonesia.

Two experts, participating in a round table discussion after the presentations, emphasized the tremendous changes in China and the funding policy in the transport sector of the World Bank.



Download of Presentations

 Stephan Kritzinger (ProgTrans)

 Andreas Klugescheid (BMW Group)

 Daniel Bongardt (GTZ)

 Jinhua Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 Dr. Andreas Kopp (World Bank)