Harnessing Intergovernmental Synergies Toward Green Mobility in Africa
9 November 2022

Harnessing Intergovernmental Synergies Toward Green Mobility in Africa

by Jerry Ndayishimiye, Head of Marketing & PR Officer, SUL Mobility An electric van charging at EVP (evpcharger.com) charging station located at Total Energies Kacyiru station in Kigali, Rwanda. While Africa is the least greenhouse gas emitting continent in the …

Transit-Oriented Development as an Anchor to Compact, Equitable, and Accessible African Cities
4 November 2022

Transit-Oriented Development as an Anchor to Compact, Equitable, and Accessible African Cities

by Carolyne Mimano, Maureen Kinyua, and Christopher Kost, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) brings compact, mixed-use development in proximity to high-quality rapid transit. Shown here is the BRT corridor in Dar es Salaam. Around the …

Raising Ambition for Transport in African Countries’ Climate Strategies
14 October 2022

Raising Ambition for Transport in African Countries’ Climate Strategies

by Cabrel Tokam, Policy Advocacy and Outreach Intern, SLOCAT Partnership Here is a picture of Kwame, owner of a dilapidated car which he uses to buy and sell goods in the capital city of Yaounde, Cameroon. Photo courtesy of SLOCAT …

Public Transport Challenges in Africa:  Mapping and Transit Data as a Remedy
4 October 2022

Public Transport Challenges in Africa: Mapping and Transit Data as a Remedy

by Ben Welle, Iman Abubaker and Agraw Ali, World Resources Institute Commuters waiting for the next bus desperately around Meskel Square – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Credit photo by Agraw Ali. Long queues for public transport have become common sights during …

Now Is the Time to Address Africa’s Dependency on Used Vehicle: Ghana’s Story
4 October 2022

Now Is the Time to Address Africa’s Dependency on Used Vehicle: Ghana’s Story

by Festival Godwin Boateng, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Columbia Climate School USA Used vehicles in Accra’s streets, Ghana Photo courtesy of Yinka Ibukun, Bloomberg News (2016). The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that more than 60% of the vehicles added to …

Businesses and Industries for Circular Economy, Local Value Creation and Short and Resilient Logistic Chains in Africa
23 September 2022

Businesses and Industries for Circular Economy, Local Value Creation and Short and Resilient Logistic Chains in Africa

by Charlène Kouassi, Director, Movin’On LAB Africa (African Mobilities Observatory OMA) Movin’On LAB Africa Mobility startup map (2021 version) For more than a decade, the private sector has been disrupting mobility systems in African cities. In every sector of mobility, …

SLOCAT Task Force on Transport Community Engagement in the UNFCCC
2 June 2022

SLOCAT Task Force on Transport Community Engagement in the UNFCCC

Throughout 2021, the SLOCAT Secretariat jointly with partners set up the SLOCAT Task Force on Transport Community Engagement in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Following strategy discussions and inputs with task force members, the Secretariat developed …

30 May 2022

NDCs Hall of Fame by SLOCAT

The NDCs Hall of Fame by SLOCAT puts the spotlight on the major transport strengths and issues in the second generation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted so far by countries in the framework of the Paris Agreement on Climate …

¿Hay coherencia entre las estrategias climáticas y las políticas de transporte? El caso de América Latina y el Caribe para los niveles nacional y subnacional
15 May 2022

¿Hay coherencia entre las estrategias climáticas y las políticas de transporte? El caso de América Latina y el Caribe para los niveles nacional y subnacional

Este informe analiza el alineamiento entre los compromisos climáticos adquiridos por los países de América Latina y el Caribe en sus NDC o LTS y la implementación mediante herramientas de planificación de transporte a niveles nacional y subnacional. Su objetivo …

Climate Strategies for Transport in Africa
10 April 2022

Climate Strategies for Transport in Africa

This infographic examines transport in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Long-Term Strategies (LTS) submitted in the framework of the Paris Agreement. The focus is on second-generation NDCs (new or updated NDCs as of 10 April 2022). Download infographics: www.slocat.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Africa-NDC-LTS-transport-infographic.pdf For …