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 addressed 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 measures that 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 make it easier for their employees, residents, students, members to travel sustainably in their daily lives. 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 had the opportunity to listen to experiences from the ongoing work in Linköping municipality, which is a model among Swedish cities and has been working with Green Travel Plans for 12 years. We also had 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 currently underway within Viable Cities to accelerate the implementation of Green Travel Plans and involving some 10 municipalities was also described. This work is being done in partnership with SKR and Linköping Municipality with funding from Vinnova.
The Climate Breakfast featured:
- 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
The conversation was led by Viable Cities Deputy Program Manager Åsa Minoz.
