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Green and healthy mobility and transport

for sustainable livelihoods for all

About THE PEP

Travel and transport are essential parts of modern life. We depend on transport to travel to work, for shopping and leisure, by car, by bus, by train, by walking and cycling. Human powered mobility can also contribute to our health and well-being through physical activity.

But transport also has harmful effects on the environment and on our health – through congestion, accidents, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

More than ever, we need to be aware of the crucial connection between transport, health and the environment. THE PEP – the Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme – makes the link.

The implementation of the five priority goals enshrined in the Paris Declaration “City in Motion – People First!” is achieved through the following THE PEP implementation mechanisms:

Green and healthy mobility and transport

for sustainable livelihoods for all

News

19 May 2020

Greening the transport sector in the post COVID-19 recovery could create up to 15 ‎million jobs worldwide

Investment in transforming the transport sector could create millions of new jobs and help countries move to greener, healthier economies, says new report.

15 May 2020

Launch of UN Task Force to make ‎post-COVID-19 pandemic mobility more environmentally sound, healthy ‎and sustainable

During the lockdown, city- and town-dwellers enjoyed clear blue skies and clean bodies of water thanks to reductions in air pollution and began to hear birdsong owing to lower levels of noise pollution.