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Policy-makers are facing demands to meet the changing mobility needs of citizens in ways which are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.
The Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) Asia is a partnership between the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), CITYNET and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). It aims to help developing world cities achieve their sustainable transport goals, through the dissemination of information about international experience and targeted work within cities.
Kyoto Declaration Signing by Asian Mayors
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Special
Event for the Signing of the
Kyoto
Declaration by
Asian Mayors for the
Promotion
of Environmentally Sustainable T
ransport in Cities
The
United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), Ministry of
the Environment- Government of Japan, and the Clean Air Initiative
for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia), jointly organized the Special Event for
the Signing of the Kyoto Declaration by Asian Mayors for the
Promotion of EST in Cities,” during the Better Air Quality (BAQ)
2008 Workshop, 12 November 2008. In
the Special Event, twelve more Asian cities - Bangkok (Thailand),
Baguio (Philippines), Cebu (Philippines), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Batam
(Indonesia), Guwahati (India), Karachi (Pakistan), Kathmandu (Nepal),
Makassar (Indonesia), Makati (Philippines), Palembang (Indonesia),
and Surat (India), signed the Kyoto
Declaration.
The
Kyoto
Declaration
was initially signed by twenty-two Asian mayors and senior government
officials from fourteen Asian countries in Kyoto, Japan in April
2007, at the first “Asian Mayors’ Policy Dialogue for the
Promotion of EST in Cities” (see http://www.uncrd.or.jp/env/est/
for the Kyoto
Declarati
on
and its signatories). The Declaration aims to achieve greater
synergies between and among national, local, and city authorities as
an effort to realize the goal of sustainability in the transport
sector. The Declaration further aims to motivate Asian cities to
demonstrate effective leadership and initiate concrete measures to
make the cities clean, green, and environment- and people-friendly through integrated EST strategies and measures.
Organized
as a special event of BAQ 2008, this signing ceremony aimed for the
further proliferation of EST among additional Asian cities, which not
only signed the Kyoto
Declaration
on 12 November 2008 and joined this important and meaningful course
of action under the Asian EST Initiative, but also demonstrated their
commitment to deal with emerging issues such as climate change
through integrated EST measures as endorsed in the Kyoto
Declaration.
The event was witnessed by more than hundred representatives from
city authorities, national and international organizations.
The declaration can be downloaded by clicking here .
For more information visit the UNCRD website by clicking here http://www.uncrd.or.jp/ .
