Seminar: Transforming to Sustainable Transport
The background
In 2012, the European transport sector was responsible for 26% of the total European energy related CO2 emissions. The Nordic countries however reveal much higher, 34.5%, transport related CO2 emissions than most other European countries, namely. 89% of these were related to road transport. For Europe and for the Nordic countries in particular, this indicates a significant potential for transformation.
The report
The “Nordic Transport Ways” report was recently published by Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), a Swedish think tank. With a view to bridge vision-action gaps within the transport sector the Nordic Action Group on Climate and Energy (NAG Transport) - a high level network for business, academia and civil society - examines the transport system and demonstrates with concrete examples that competitiveness and transformation into sustainable transport solutions can advance hand in hand.
Through the committed participation also from academia and the civil society the work has been able to take on a holistic view when analysing sustainability in the transport sector; ecology, social/human ends and economy. The report is the result of a large number of workshops and seminars and numerous separate discussions with individual experts.
The seminar
Together with MEP Jytte Guteland the Swedish independent think-tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenge) is now organizing a seminar at the European Parliament to briefly present and discuss the conclusions of the report and the possible implications for the climate, energy and transport policy roadmaps at Nordic and European level.
