NDCs are comprehensive climate plans that countries are adopting as pledges to achieve the Paris climate agreement. Their next revision will be in 2025. Only 25% of those NDcs include active travel measures (cycling and walking). Moreover those who do mention active travel measures do not impose deadlines. Besides NDCs, only 17% of countries have a national policy on cycling. While the combination of a realistic shift to walking/cycling/public transport could lead to 50% reduction in transport emission (*) this is clearly a disregarded leverage at the COP level !
(*see research from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) )
These proposals will be refined through our meetings with officials and associations in the capitals or major cities we pass through. We will collect comments from these stakeholders (agree, disagree, and if so, amendments or replacement proposals) which will be reviewed and synthesized by a panel of five experts before being presented at COP29.