Authored by Jill Warren and Froso Christofides At COP28 this year, ECF was on the ground advocating for more cycling as a core answer to the climate crisis.
Despite active travel and transport remaining a low priority on the agenda, over 400 organisations from 73 countries signed the Partnership for Active Travel and Health's open letter to world leaders at COP27.
The European Commission’s revision proposal for the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive will make bicycle parking mandatory in all new and renovated buildings in the EU, a measure that will make everyday cycling easier for millions of people.
A global campaign led by the ECF, which included an open letter to governments at COP26 signed by 350 organisations worldwide, has helped achieve a last-minute recognition of active travel in the official COP26 Transport Declaration on 10 November.
An open letter by the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) and a global coalition of pro-cycling organisations urging governments to cut transport emissions by investing in cycling has seen a surge in support from all over the world.
We cannot afford to wait decades for our fleet of fossil-fuel cars to be fully replaced by electric vehicles. To cut transport CO2 emissions quickly and on a massive scale, EU and world leaders must commit to boosting global cycling levels now...
ECF and a global coalition of over 60 pro-cycling organisations have published an open letter calling on governments attending COP26 in Glasgow to commit to increasing the number of people who cycle in their countries to reach...
At the world cycling summit in Lisbon on 6-9 September, Jill Warren made it clear that there is no conceivable way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the European Green Deal or climate-neutral cities without significantly more cycling.
The new Finnish centre-left government set its ambitions high when it took office in June 2019: by 2035, the Nordic country should achieve zero-carbon emissions, 15 years ahead of what the European Commission has proposed as an objective for the...
2018 has been one of the best years yet for ECF’s advocacy team; heading into 2019 we really feel like there has been a sea change in thinking on transport policy, as the benchmark for how we measure a successful transportation system has shifted....
“Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through a socially-fair transition in a cost-efficient manner” – This is the key sentence in the European Long-Term Climate Strategy that the European Commission published today in Brussels [1]....
Decarbonising the European economy is among the biggest challenges of our time, and all main-stream political parties in the EU agree with the overall principle and direction. However, the devil is in the detail: Should the EU stick to its...
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