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18 Spring 2020 European Energy Innovation

EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK

This year’s
EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK
to call for zero-emission
mobility for all
As part of the recently
launched “EU Green Deal”, Road transport accounts for at EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK is an
the European Commission least 70% of the total greenhouse annual awareness-raising campaign
(EC) has set the ambitious gas emissions produced by the EU organised by ICLEI, Eurocities, and
transport sector as a whole. As a result, Polis on behalf of the European
Commission’s Directorate-General
target of making Europe the world’s a shift toward clean and sustainable of Transport and Mobility. This year,
recognising the vast benefits of
first climate-neutral continent by urban transport is clearly critical. green mobility – which range from
financial, to health and well-being
2050. In order to reach this goal, benefits – the campaign will focus
on the theme of “Zero-emission
emissions from transport, which However, how can cities and towns mobility for all”.

account for a quarter of the European encourage their residents to make

Union (EU)’s greenhouse gas the move toward sustainable

emissions, will need to be reduced by mobility? One campaign that seeks to

90% by 2050. do this is EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK.

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