The Center for Sustainable Transport Brazil (CTS-Brasil) will host the 2009 Brazil National Summit on Transport and the Environment, a one-day event gathering about 50 representatives from government, development banks and non-governmental organizations to discuss the barriers and opportunities to reduce carbon emissions from the urban transport sector in Brazil. They will debate the role of government, society and the private sector to develop needed actions.
The main purpose of the event is to prepare policy recommendations for inclusion in the Brazilian National Plan of Climate Change (PNMC), which is up for revision in 2010. In addition, the event will give the British government a clearer view of Brazil's sustainable transport needs.
Many initiatives are needed to reduce urban transport environmental emissions, among them:
(1) incentive to use public transit;
(2) discouraging the use of individual motorized transport;
(3) renewal of the bus and micro-bus fleets;
(4) rationalization of public transportation routes;
(5) establishment of high capacity systems (i.e. metro, bus rapid transit) for public transport;
(6) infrastructure dedicated to non-motorized transport (i.e. bicycle and pedestrian paths)
(7) urban management (i.e. transport integrated with land use)
Event Sponsors
- Center for Sustainable Transport Brazil (CTS-Brasil)
- British Embassy
- National Confederation of Transport
LOCATION
Headquarters of the National Confederation of Transport (CNT)
SAS, Quadra 1, Bloco J
Brasília, DF
BRAZIL
PRESENTERS
- Ministry of Environment
- British Ambassador
- Suzana Kahn Ribeiro, Secretary pf Climate Change and Environment Quality of the Ministry of Environment
- Luiz Carlos Bueno de Lima, National Secretary of Transport and Urban Mobility of the Ministry for Cities
Did You Know?
Brazil's motorization rate keeps growing--cars take up 82% of urban road space, leaving only 18% for buses. Considering vehicle occupation rates, cars take up 15 times more space than public transit vehicles to transport the same number of people.
Eighty percent of Brazil's population lives in urban areas. Cities suffer from traffic congestion and air pollution caused by a transport system that privileges cars over public transit, bicycling and walking.
Event Organizers
From CTS-Brasil:
* Luis Antonio Lindau, Director
* Rejane D. Fernandes, Communications Coordinator
From the National Confederation of Transport:
* Marilei Menezes, Special Projects Coordinator
* Patricia Boson, Environment Consultant
From the British Embassy:
* Luiz Andrade, Climate Change Program Manager
* Raissa Ferreira, Support Officer of Climate Change Program
Contact:
Rejane Fernandes
CTS-Brasil Communications Coordinator
55 51 3312-6324
55 51 9261-6165
rfernandes@ctsbrasil.org
