What makes people fall in love with cycling? The view from the seat of your bike is undoubtedly part of it! Hundreds of people followed our call to participate in the ECF World Bicycle Day photo contest on June 3rd, 2019. We want to thank...
2018 was a huge year for the Global Policies Team at ECF, helping cycling take its place in the international limelight with the launch of the newly anointed World Cycling Alliance, the first, hugely successful UN World Bicycle Day and the...
The World Bank and Embarq- the sustainable mobility initiative of WRI Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities, held the 2018 edition of Transforming Transportation, at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC on January 11-12th. The theme of this...
200 years ago, in 1817, Karl von Drais built the first “running machine”, the predecessor of the modern bicycle, in the city of Mannheim (Germany). To celebrate his invention and to highlight its role for today’s mobility system, the German Federal...
UPDATE 22/09/17: ECF was pleased to be given the opportunity to comment on the WHO Draft Global Action Plan on Physical Activity (GAPPA). The ECF submission can be found HERE. We are committed and willing to assist in its ongoing development,...
Smoove, member of the Cycling Industry Club, is the official bike share provider for COP22, in Marrakesh. This year they "installed a fleet of 1,500 bikes in Helsinki, as well as fleets in Vancouver, Canada, and in Shymkent and Almaty in Kazakhstan...
After three years of negotiations,The New Urban Agenda (NUA) has been adopted at the bi-decennial United Nations (UN) Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) which took place on the 17th – 20th of October 2016 in...
People around the world are migrating faster and faster towards urban areas. Nowadays, more than 50% of the world’s population live in cities and, if it goes on like this, more than 75% of the population will be living in urban areas by 2050....
This past week the Velo-city Series and Global Policies team and members of the World Cycling Alliance (WCA) were in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to attend the annual BiciRio conference and hold kick-off Velo-city 2018 workshop. It was the 6th edition...
ECF’s Secretary General Bernhard Ensink was invited to represent ECF and the World Cycling Alliance (WCA) at the Climate Action 2016 Summit on “Catalyzing a Sustainable Future” in Washington DC May 5-6 and the Work Day on Sustainable Transport the...
The World Cycling Alliance (WCA) will campaign for the creation of a #WorldBicycleDay to be observed by the United Nations. At the closing session of the Global Cycling Summit in Taipei, Velo-city 2016, WCA and ECF President Manfred...
After several years of consulting and lobbying, a great result has been achieved by the Thailand Cycling Club, an organisation that is part of the Steering Board of the World Cycling Alliance. Such a change will impact Thailand’s cycling system and...
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