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The decade of the bicycle

World Bicycle Day, 3 June, may only come around once a year, but this decade could see the bicycle reclaim a central place in our societies – and mitigate the w...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...

03 Jun, 2021

The German federal government will be investing 900 million Euro in cycling as part of its national climate protection programme. The largest part will be funde...

08 Feb, 2021

The transport sector is the second-fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after industry. It accounts for roughly 25% of the world’s total CO2...

19 Nov, 2020
Tejvan Pettinger (CC by 2.0)

Author: Maya WatsonA new study reveals that a modal shift to cycling from car trips could dramatically reduce mobility-related lifecycle emissions.  More...

03 Aug, 2020

Last week European cycling associations marked an important breakthrough for cycling on the EU agenda as an equal mode of transport with the auto sector and pub...

03 Jun, 2020
Low Emission Zone in Antwerp, Belgium

Lisbon was the latest European city to present a LEZ initiative in order to improve its air quality. Our Portuguese members, FPCUB and MUBi, welcome this measur...

05 Mar, 2020
Climate crisis becomes one of the main European concerns

The European Investment Bank (EIB) recently released the results of their climate survey, a comprehensive initiative assessing citizens’ perception of climate c...

24 Jan, 2020
The European Green Deal – A huge opportunity for cycling

The EU will become the first to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the European Commission proposed last Wednesday in its landmark Communication on a Euro...

17 Dec, 2019

Sunday 22 September was the World Car-Free Day, a special recurrence meant to help citizens understand what their city could look and feel like, if cars were ba...

24 Sep, 2019

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...

23 Sep, 2019

Author: City of LjubljanaLjubljana, the capital of Slovenia, with approximately 290,000 inhabitants is an environmentally ambitious city and known as green, cl...

08 Aug, 2019
Cycling fully-fledged part of Dutch climate policy

To address climate disruption, the Dutch government presented its Climate Agreement on 28 June 28th, 2019. The whole of Western Europe was hit by a scorching he...

29 Jul, 2019

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