Environment Transport club sees "enormous backlog demand" for climate measures
Ten years after the Paris Climate Agreement, the environmental association VCS has identified an "enormous backlog" in climate protection in the transport sector. Instead of expanding freeways, it calls for more investment in environmentally friendly mobility solutions.
09.01.2025, 10:15
09.01.2025, 13:17
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At its annual media conference in Bern on Thursday, the Swiss Transport Club (VCS) took stock of the current situation and outlined its transport policy priorities and demands for the year 2025, drawing up an interim assessment of climate policy. Switzerland is "seriously behind schedule" when it comes to transport, he said. There is a lack of "consistent measures".
"Without ambitious measures in the transport sector, we will not achieve our climate targets - neither the national nor the global ones," VCS Vice President Thomas Ruckstuhl was quoted as saying in a press release.
With the upcoming taxation of electric cars to finance the infrastructure, the VCS wants to ensure that the urgently overdue electrification of road traffic is not delayed as a result.
