On behalf of the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF), we have truly enjoyed working with Mayor Fernando Medina and Deputy Mayor Miguel Gaspar and with the Munic...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 Europ...
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 W...
On Monday 11th June, one day before the opening of Velo-city 2018, around 20 members of the Cities & Regions for Cyclists network convened in Rio from all o...
The World Urban Forum (WUF) is an event organized every two years by the UN-Habitat since 2002; this year’s edition was held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) from 7 t...
The World Bank and Embarq- the sustainable mobility initiative of WRI Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities, held the 2018 edition of Transforming Transportation,...
In the midst of a transport-packed week in Washington DC, ECF’s Global Policies Director Mr Marcio Deslandes attended the 10th SuM4All Fourth Consortium meeting...
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...
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 ca...
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 He...
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...