SuM4All featured in the 2021 UNFCCC Climate Action Pathway
Just before Summer this year, the UNFCCC acknowledged Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) as a leading actor on transport decarbonization around the world, joining several others coalesced under the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Group to accelerate action on climate change.
What is the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Group?
It is a global network of more than 1,500 civil society organizations in over 130 countries driving collective and sustainable action to fight the climate crisis and to achieve social and racial justice.
What is the pathway proposed by the Global Climate Action Group to decarbonize the transport sector?
The Climate Action Pathway - Transport Action Table provides a roadmap to help stakeholders—policy makers, financial institutions, technology providers and innovators, business and service providers, and civil society—to identify actions needed periodically by 2021, 2025, 2030, and 2040 as progressive steps to accomplish the 2050 vision of limiting global temperature rise to a 1.5°Celsius resilient world. Decarbonization of the sector will go through action on land transport, shipping, and aviation.
The land transport change levers consist of a smart combination of strategies to achieve zero carbon emissions for land transport. The shipping change levers include the need for accelerated action and cross-industry collaboration to accelerate research and development (R&D) and realize large-scale system demonstrations for the shipping industry. The aviation change levers consist of accelerated investment and cross-stakeholder radical collaboration to realize the most viable path to zero carbon for the aviation sector.
For land transport, the Pathway identifies four impact areas critical to achieving zero carbon emissions:
- Reduce transport demand and distance
- Shift to more environment friendly and lower carbon modes of transport
- Resilient transport systems, infrastructure, and vehicles
- Substitute fuels with electricity and improve vehicle, fuel, and operational efficiencies to decrease emissions of unavoidable travel.
What is the role of Sustainable Mobility for All?
Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) is recognized as a leading actor to achieve Impact on “Shifting to more environment friendly and lower carbon modes of transport.” SuM4all has a solid track record of action in that space, including capacity building efforts to train public officials on the best practices and policy knowledge on sustainable transport including how to develop, manage and operate transport systems that are safe and secure for all users, green, resilient, and equitable. On the global advocacy front, SuM4All helped rebalance the debate on e-mobility at COP26, by taking the perspective of the least developed countries (LDCs) in the Global South. On the action front, SuM4All is piloting the use of new tools developed by the partnership (including the Global Roadmap of Action toward Sustainable Mobility (GRA)) and influencing the pipeline of investment projects to help the country achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Climate targets.