| dc.description | The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in collaboration with Member States and Transport Corridor Authorities, held an event on Sustainable Transport in Africa focusing on current trends and remedial measures with a view to making Africa’s transportation systems more sustainable, socially inclusive, and environmentally friendly.
Opening the event, ECA’s Executive Secretary, Claver Gatete, in a statement read on his behalf by Robert Lisinge, the Acting Director of the Private Sector Development and Finance Division, stressed that “African countries need to cooperate to enhance their connectivity through an integrated intermodal transport system”. He noted that this “cooperation can be achieved not only by developing quality, reliable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure but also by exchanging best practices to optimize the development of interconnected highways, railways, waterways, and airways”. He argued that “we must also construct and operate our transport infrastructure in ways that minimize consumption of energy, land and other resources and generate low emissions of greenhouse gases, ozone-depleting substances, and other pollutants to ensure a positive social impact”. | en |
