• Input to the Secretary General's Report on Transport for Sustainable Development

• Transport Caucus Questionaire

• CSD Secretariat site on Transport

• Towards Earth Summit II: transport

• Some Transport Related Links
• Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP)
• International Forum for Rural Transport and Development
• Transportation Research Board
• Tata Energy Research Insititute

Urban transport & envt. in India

As co-coordinators of the UN CSD NGO Transport Caucus, we would like to invite you to participate in the preparations for the 9th UN Commission on Sustainable Development meeting ("CSD 9") in April 2001 on Transport. 

The CSD is the UN body that reviews the implementation of Agenda 21. In its 5-year review of the Rio Summit in 1997 the CSD identified several new areas of work.  This included transport which presently does not have its own chapter in Agenda 21. The CSD is one of the most interesting bodies in the UN system because it has the greatest involvement of stakeholders and is the only political UN Commission (i.e. it is chaired by a Minister or former Minister of a member country.) 

Beyond being one of the key issues on the CSD's agenda next year, transport is also the topic of a 2-day multi-stakeholder Dialogue session during CSD 9.  The Dialogues are the only place where industry sits down and debates with other stakeholder groups in a transparent and creative way. The 2-day multi-stakeholder Dialogues will be broken down into 4 different three-hour sessions.  

To enable the active participation of as many groups as possible we have set up a list server transport-csd@egroups.com . We would ask you to join and help in the preparation for this year's CSD even if you can not attend. 

The CSD Bureau has agreed the following themes for the Dialogue sessions: 

• Public-private partnerships for de-carbonizing the transportation system
•  Sustainable transport planning: choices and models for human settlements, designs and vehicle alternatives

Please fill out our questionaire if you are interested in participating.  Looking forward to your responses. 

Best Wishes