4th UPC International Seminar on Sustainable Technology Development
Vilanova i la Geltrú, 3 - 10 June, 2011
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Presentation of 4th International STD
Transport is fundamental to our economy and society. Mobility is vital for the internal market and for the quality of life of citizens as they enjoy their freedom to travel, as a psyco-social need. Transport enables economic growth and job creation: it must be sustainable in the light of the new challenges we face. Transport is global, so effective action requires strong international cooperation in a context of globalisation and intensification of international transports markets.
The international community has called for the need to drastically reduce world greenhouse gas emissions, with the goal of limiting climate change below 2ºC. Overall, the EU needs to reduce emissions by 80-95% below 1990 levels by 2050, in the context of the necessary reductions of the developed countries as a group, in order to reach this goal. Given the substantial increase in transport emissions over the past two decades, this would still put them 8% above the 1990 level.
The models of cities and urban spread, the strengthening of transportation needs to access employment and services, accidents in transportation, air and sea contamination are coming from a particular growth model. Is there a solution? Is it the electric vehicle? Is it a degrowthing model?
We will try to address to a sustainable mobility in order to analyze:
- The impact generated by a planning model based on the need for infrastructures and that doesn't include aspects of prevention and reduction of mobility.
- The attitudes and habits related to satisfaction of mobility needs of citizens (forced mobility, mobility-leisure and others)
- The ecological footprint derived from a model of consumption based on unlimited growth, which creates self-generated needs.
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