Climate Breakfast 42: Green Travel Plans for Climate Smart and Healthy Travel

Everyday travel to and from home, school, work and leisure activities accounts for a large share of transport emissions and is therefore an important part of cities' climate transition efforts. This climate breakfast will discuss how Green Travel Plans can facilitate everyday travel that can reduce climate emissions and contribute to many added benefits of climate transition such as improved health, gender equality, inclusion, better accessibility and attractive workplaces.

Green Travel Plans are a collaborative effort to implement a set of measures to influence the need for travel, and increase the share of active and sustainable travel to a geographical area or workplace. Local actors such as employers, property owners, schools and sports clubs work together to implement measures to make it easier for their employees, residents, students, members, etc. to travel sustainably in their everyday lives. Local actors such as employers, property owners and associations work together to facilitate sustainable travel or reduced travel. Social contexts, for example among colleagues at a workplace, neighbors or a sports club, are important keys to shifting behaviors and norms.

During the climate breakfast, we will have the opportunity to listen to experiences and ongoing work from the municipality of Linköping, which is a role model among Swedish cities and has been working with Green Travel Plans for 12 years. We will also have the opportunity to take part in the extensive initiative currently underway in Lund, where a number of workplaces are implementing Green Travel Plans. During the breakfast, the work that is currently underway within Viable Cities to accelerate the implementation of Green Travel Plans and involves about 10 municipalities is also briefly described. This work is done in partnership with SKR and Linköping Municipality with funding from Vinnova.

The Climate Breakfast will feature:

• Sandra Viktor, mobility manager and process manager for climate change adaptation work in Linköping municipality.
• Pernilla Hyllenius Mattisson, Mobility expert sustainable transport in businesses, Trivector, responsible for Lund Municipality's Green Travel Plans initiative within the framework of the city's work on climate change

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