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UITP CHARTER ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
RECENT SIGNINGSApril 2011
CEO’s and Senior Managers from Daimler Buses – EvoBus, Irisbus Iveco, MAN Truck & Bus, Scania, Solaris Bus & Coach, Temsa Global, VDL Bus & Coach and Volvo Bus Corporation signed up in a high level ceremony their commitment to the Sustainable Development Charter in the presence of Hans Rat, UITP Secretary General, and Alain Flausch, UITP President, at the end of the energy-related session, entitled “Don’t waste your energy!” at the 59th UITP World Congress in Dubai. We welcome this joint effort said Hans Rat, UITP Secretary General, walking around the City and Mobility Exhibition you will see all the new technologies being used for buses and joining the Charter shows that their commitment is more than skin deep . Hakan Karlsson, CEO and President of the Volvo Bus Corporation and acting chair of ACEA’s Bus Group for General Managers said: “Energy use from buses has decreased by 30% over the last 30 years, emissions have decreased 90% and the focus nowadays is going from emissions to energy. There are several ways to reduce environmental impact and the Sustainable Development Charter Reporting Framework will allow us to monitor all new technologies and organise experienced feedback to the whole sustainable development sector”. This first move from bus manufacturers toward the Sustainable Development Charter is only the beginning, as smaller manufacturers are now expected to follow their leadership.
Dubai, 11, 12 and 13 April 2011 - The UITP stand, the Indian and Turkish regional workshops, as well as the North American lunch welcomed other Charter signatures: Some Charter members were signing from Pledge to Full member, thus renewing their commitment:
Other decided to join the Sustainable Development Charter:
September 2010
Brussels, 18 September 2010 – During the celebration weekend of UITP’s 125 years, three of the UITP Sustainable Development Charter signatories decided to declare their commitment to the Charter, so congratulations to our new Full signatories:
At the same occasion, a new French signatory, SYSTRA, also decided to join the UITP Sustainable Development Charter and signed directly as Full Charter member. Welcome SYSTRA! June 2010GERMAN SD CHARTER SIGNATORIES REITERATE COMMITMENT
Munich, 8 June 2010 – At the occasion of the annual VDV (Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen) national German Public Transport Association’s Congress, 12 German signatories plus the VDV decided to re-sign the UITP Sustainable Development Charter in order to reaffirm their commitment. Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe (LVB) and Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVB) are also active members of the Sustainable Development Commission. UITP members included :
October 2009
SEMITAN signs the Sustainable Development Charter as a Pledge member October 2009
Pledge signatory since 2004, VVM De Lijn has decided to join the group of Full signatories during the last UITP Policy Board meeting in Ghent. June 2009Several companies took the opportunity of the 58th UITP World Congress held in Vienna in June to become Pledge members of the UITP Sustainable Development Charter:
Whereas others were successfully switching from Pledge to Full members:
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Dubai, 13 April 2011 - 8 major bus manufacturers became signatories to the UITP Sustainable Development Charter. It is the first time bus manufacturers take such a commitment and decide to do this as a group to show that their industry support to this programme.
