At the world cycling summit in Lisbon on 6-9 September, Jill Warren made it clear that there is no conceivable way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the European Green Deal or climate-neutral cities without significantly more cycling.

2018 was a huge year for the Global Policies Team at ECF, helping cycling take its place in the international limelight with the launch of the newly anointed World Cycling Alliance, the first, hugely successful UN World Bicycle Day and the...

On Monday 11th June, one day before the opening of Velo-city 2018, around 20 members of the Cities & Regions for Cyclists network convened in Rio from all over Europe (and the world) for a great bike ride and networking day. The Cities &...

The World Urban Forum (WUF) is an event organized every two years by the UN-Habitat since 2002; this year’s edition was held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) from 7 to 13 February 2018. The main focus of the WUF9 has been the implementation of the New...

The World Bank and Embarq- the sustainable mobility initiative of WRI Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities, held the 2018 edition of Transforming Transportation, at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC on January 11-12th. The theme of this...

In the midst of a transport-packed week in Washington DC, ECF’s Global Policies Director Mr Marcio Deslandes attended the 10th SuM4All Fourth Consortium meeting at the World Bank Headquarters on the 10th of January 2018. Joining experts on...

200 years ago, in 1817, Karl von Drais built the first “running machine”, the predecessor of the modern bicycle, in the city of Mannheim (Germany). To celebrate his invention and to highlight its role for today’s mobility system, the German Federal...

UPDATE 22/09/17: ECF was pleased to be given the opportunity to comment on the WHO Draft Global Action Plan on Physical Activity (GAPPA). The ECF submission can be found HERE. We are committed and willing to assist in its ongoing development,...

Smoove, member of the Cycling Industry Club, is the official bike share provider for COP22, in Marrakesh. This year they "installed a fleet of 1,500 bikes in Helsinki, as well as fleets in Vancouver, Canada, and in Shymkent and Almaty in Kazakhstan...

After three years of negotiations,The New Urban Agenda (NUA) has been adopted at the bi-decennial United Nations (UN) Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) which took place on the 17th – 20th of October 2016 in...

Last month World Cycling Alliance’s (WCA) very own Amanda Ngabirano delivered a successful presentation entitled “Mainstreaming Transport in the Sustainable Development Goals: For a Smart Moving Uganda” to the highest political figures at the...

ECF’s Secretary General Bernhard Ensink was invited to represent ECF and the World Cycling Alliance (WCA) at the Climate Action 2016 Summit on “Catalyzing a Sustainable Future” in Washington DC May 5-6 and the Work Day on Sustainable Transport the...