Ninth Meeting of the Working Group on Sustainable Transport
01 - 02 April 2019, Budapest, Hungary
The Working Group on Sustainable Transport meeting was organized in Budapest, Hungary, on 1-2 April 2019, in cooperation with DTP TRANSGREEN Project Partnership and Eurac Research.
The meeting aimed at supporting and enhancing implementation of Articles 8 “Sustainable Transport and infrastructure” of the Carpathian Convention and its Protocol on Sustainable Transport. In relation to this, an expected result of the WG meeting was a thorough discussion on the Transport Strategic Action Plan for the Carpathians.
The task to develop a Transport Strategic Action Plan responds to the Decisions of the Fifth Conference of the Parties, especially Decision COP5/9 para 2. which recommends “the Working Group on Sustainable Transport, Infrastructure, Industry and Energy (hereinafter WG Transport) with support of the TRANSGREEN project, to develop a Strategic Action Plan for fostering the implementation of the Transport Protocol, invites other Working Groups and relevant stakeholders to support the process”.
MEETING PRESENTATIONS
- Wildlife and traffic in the Carpathians – Guidelines how to minimize impact of transport infrastructure development on nature in the Carpathian countries
- Discussion about the stategic action plan for the implementation of the Protocol on Sustainable Transport
- TRANSGREEN. Integrated Transport and Green Infrastructure Planning in the Danube-Carpathian Region for the Benefit of People and Nature
- ConnectGREEN. Restoring and managing ecological corridors in mountains as the green infrastructure in the Danube basin
