1⃣🌏🌍🌎To build transport infrastructures that meet climate goals, financial systems need reorientation towards climate proofing 🌿💰

Thread for details ⬇️
@SLOCATOfficial 

transformative-mobility.org/news/key-messa… 💰💷The estimated funding gap for transport infrastructure is immense: $440 billion per year! 💴 

🛤️We need a shift here.👉Read more on how: transformative-mobility.org/news/key-messa…

#COP26 3⃣ fighters against climate change: Cities, Mobility and #Naturebasedsolutions

There is no better time than #COP26 to look at the climate, cities, mobility and #naturebasedsolutions nexus – collecting thoughts, ideas and examples. Feel free to discuss and add (🧵⏬🌳) 1/n #COP26 What are our joint objectives?

•Livable cities
•Less CO2
•Safe and convenient mobility
•Good air quality
•Ambient temperatures
•Healthy and beautiful places
•Attractive public spaces
•Resilient infrastructure
•...

⁉️How can we do this together⁉️ 2/n

#COP26 This formula fights climate change: km=2*(population/1000)

(Thread ⏬) 🚲✅
H/T 📽 @modacitylife

#COP26 To avert climate change and limit warming to 1.5°C we need to reduce carbon emissions from transport - in fact transport is the problem child of carbon emissions. In many countries transport emissions are rising while all other emissions are falling H/T @SLOCATOfficial 2/n

#COP26 Women empowerment is sustainable transport policy is climate policy ♀️🚶‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚋✅ #gender

5 principles for transport:
womenmobilize.org #COP26 Women empowerment - Principle 1⃣
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👉womenmobilize.org/campaigning/

Here is why cities around the world should build 2 km high quality, segregated cycling lane per 1000 inhabitants (thread ⏬) 🚲✅
To avert catastrophic climate change and limit warming to 1.5°C we need to reduce carbon emissions from transport drastically. In fact transport is the problem child of carbon emissions. In many countries transport
emissions are rising while all other emissions are falling. 2/n

👉The New Normal: Public Transport 🚌🚎🚈🚋 in a #COVID19 world. Collecting guidelines, case studies, campaigns – an incomplete thread, feel free to join the debate. Thread ⬇️. 1/x: SLOCAT, @TUMInitiative @giztransportCN: COVID-19 and Sustainable Mobility - Early Observations and Documentation
transformative-mobility.org/publications/c…

#summerofcycling goes on:
👉Pop-up bike lanes are the new kids on the block. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️
An incomplete summary. Thread ⬇️. cont'd: Pop-up bike lanes (or emergency bike lanes) are temporary cycling infrastructure to help cyclists to maintain spatial distance to minimise the risk of infection and relieve public transport.
@Felix_Weisbrich on #TUMITV about the concept:

#summerofcycling - Focus: Cycling superhighways 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️
An incomplete summary. Thread ⬇️. cont'd: Cycling superhighways are premium end of cycling market, allowing for higher travel speeds and extending the range of bicycles to longer distances with average speed of 20 km/h (design speed of 30 km/h) by limiting gradients, width of >4m , priority at intersections, ...

#mobilizeminds #coronavirus
👉Watch this @APTA_Transit webinar for public transportation industry leaders on: Transit’s Response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
📽️apta.vzaar.me/21327608 // more material here: apta.com/public-transit… #wearetransport cont'd:

👉👉👉 Please share your measures as PT operator to stop the spread of corona

The @APTA_Transit A Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response includes additional information on potential measures: apta.com/wp-content/upl… #coronavirus #wearetransport