What are the 13 leading Green TRANSPORT think-tanks in Brussels in 2024 ?
Transport & Environment is a green transport generalist think-tank ( working on 11 different topics ). It is Europe’s leading advocate for clean transport.
On the theme of urban mobility, CIVITAS “is one of the flagship programmes helping the European Commission achieve its ambitious mobility and transport goals, and in turn those in the European Green Deal – it does this by acting as a network of cities, for cities, dedicated to sustainable urban mobility” ; Clean Cities aims “to spark a healthy competition between Europe’s city leaders to go further and faster in the race to transition to zero-emission mobility by 2030” ; MobiliseYourCity is a “global Partnership of more than 100 partners for sustainable urban mobility planning”, including 74 member cities with a combined population of over 130 million people, and 16 member countries ; the EuropeanMobilityWeek “is the European Commission’s flagship awareness-raising campaign on sustainable urban mobility, it promotes behavioural change in favour of active mobility, public transport, and other clean, intelligent transport solutions” ; POLIS “is the leading network of European cities and regions working together to develop innovative technologies and policies for local transport” ; UITP, the International Association of Public Transport, is the only worldwide network to bring together all public transport stakeholders and all sustainable transport modes ; and the EU Urban Mobility Observatory “facilitates the exchange of information, knowledge and experience in the field of sustainable urban mobility”.
The European Cyclists’ Federation is a Brussels-based independent non-profit association dedicated to achieving more and better cycling for all in Europe.
The Platform for electromobility promotes electromobility and strives to develop solutions to electrify European transport.
ERTRAC ( European Road Transport Research Advisory Council ) is the European Technology Platform ( ETP ) for Road Transport. Supported by the European Commission, its mission is to provide a framework to focus the coordinated efforts of public and private resources on the necessary research activities. It can work for example on the question of Freight decarbonization and on the subject of Light Electric Vehicles.
The Clean Shipping Coalition “is an international association of civil society environmental protection organisations, and the only one with a purely shipping focus”. It helps “develop and drive global environment and climate laws on shipping”.
And finally, Eurocities is a think-tank with several green working programmes, including Mobility. It is “prioritising the design of safe, climate-resilient, and inclusive streets and spaces” and is “mainstreaming zero-emission mobility in cities, which involves making electric and active mobility the norm rather than the exception”.
