New studies into cycling traffic and road safety in the Brussels-Capital Region provide remarkable insights two years into the cycling boom, while the city launches new plans to create a larger low-traffic zone in the Brussels city centre by August...

On 28 December 2021, the French parliament adopted a decree which stipulates that car manufacturers must include sustainable-mobility messaging displayed prominently in car ads.

A scenario in which 100% of urban car trips in 2050 are replaced by cycling would prevent 205,424 premature deaths due to reductions in air pollution and increases in regular physical activity.

As world leaders negotiate how best to combat the climate crisis at COP26, ECF takes a look at how more cycling can help the tourism sector not only reduce its CO2 emissions, but also encourage biodiversity regeneration.

As world leaders head to Glasgow for COP26, we must shift focus from the electrification of cars and trucks to the benefits of investing in more and safer cycling, one of the best solutions to reach global climate goals quickly and effectively.

The European Commission’s “Fit for 55” package missed a major opportunity to propose a radical transformational shift away from polluting road transport. To cut emissions by 55% by 2030, the EU must significantly scale up cycling across all of ...

The world will need much more cycling if we are to overcome climate change, the most urgent crisis of our times. If we succeed, the 2020s could be the decade when the way we transport ourselves stopped being the problem and became part of the...

ECF’s new #CargoBike article series shines the spotlight on the cargo bike, a rising star in the sustainable transition of our cities, by taking a closer look at what roles cargo bikes play in Brussels and Lisbon, two major European cities.

Novi Sad, Serbia’s “cycling city”, is set to provide incentives for bicycle purchases, a first for the country. The landmark initiative follows successful advocacy from the Novi Sad Cycling Initiative, a member of the European Cyclists’ Federation...

For the past decades, urban planning focused on crafting cities for cars. Now as attitudes and mindsets are changing, we are starting to see the tide turning towards shaping human-centred cities. From cycleways, cycle-pedestrian bridges, bicycle...

Nine out of 10 citizens breath dirty air. Road transport remains a major source of air pollution that harms human health and the environment. To reduce the impact of mobility schemes on air quality, many European policy-makers are putting the...

By August 22, humans will have demanded as much from nature as Earth can renew in the whole year. This Earth Overshoot Day arrives more than three weeks later this year than in 2019. The great reduction of humanity’s ecological footprint is closely...