Sustainable Investment The need for an Integrated Policy in the Transport Sector

1. Sustainable InvestmentThe need for an IntegratedPolicy in the Transport Sector Ton Sledsens. Vice-President T&E Conference Investing in Sustainable Development, Dublin, 1-2 February 2004

2. Transport, one of the keys to quality of life Positive • Provides freedom • Economic and employment development • Social cohesion • Living conditions Negative • Environmental impacts • Health effects • Living conditions • Reduced accessibility • Nature and landscape impacts www.t-e.nu

3. Are current developments in Transport positive ? ZEROindicators show sufficient improvement European Environmental Agency: 27 indicators on sustainable development: 6 indicators lack sufficient data 8indicators have not shown progress 13indicators have becomeworse ! www.t-e.nu

4. 190 170 150 130 110 EU,ALL minus transport 90 EU transport 1995 1997 1998 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 1999 2000 EU aviation sustainable development in transport ? EU CO2 emissions, 1990-2000 index 1990=100 Facts: • EU- target 2010: - 8 % • To date: transport +22 % • Estimate 2010 by DG-TREN: without policies : + 41 % www.t-e.nu

5. more mobility better accessibility Socially sound development in Transport ? current trends • Families have to spend by times more then 50% extra from their household budget on transport, compared to 20 years ago • Social exclusion of those who can’t use a car • Areas split apart by infrastructure • Hospital concentrations, out-of-town-stores, etc leads to accessibility-poverty, especially for the underprivileged www.t-e.nu

6. Economic sound development in Transport ? Transport leaves unpaid bill for others to ‘pay’ • 758 billion euros in 1995, or 9.7% of GDP • 92% of these costs are caused by road transport Consequently • Current prices in transport are to low and thus • transport is too costly because • there is an artificially too high demand for roads www.t-e.nu

7. Sustainable Economy and Transport The findings of SACTRA, Transport and the Economy (UK-government advisory body) • Imperfect markets and prices lead to market failure • Breaking the cycle of ever increasing Transport Growth could benefit rather then harm the economy. • Further example: transport is like electricity a production-cost: Per euro earned, some member states use three times as much transport as others. Results from the Netherlands, study shows: • Differentiated kilometre charge would benefit the Netherlands by 700 million Euro, each year. Investing in road building to achieve similar congestion relieve would cost many billions over the next two decades. Conclusion: Good investment policies require good pricing policies www.t-e.nu

8. Sustainable investments in EU-transport DOs • Base decisions on Integrated Cost-Benefit Analyses per project • For BIG plans, like the T-TENS make a SEIA for the networks, and adjust investments accordingly • Invest in modal shift towards sustainability • Remove counter productive subsidies • Make the economy less transport dependent : • Invest in Transport efficiency increasing projects • Invest in accessibility : • R&D, Pilots, Best Practices, information sharing, Projects www.t-e.nu

9. Sustainable investments in EU-transport 2 Don'ts • Continue on a business as usual scenario • Thus: Implement a winning CO2 strategy ! • Thus: Rework the Growth Initiative and the T-TEN’s • Wait with the necessary pricing policy • Thus: adapt the current Eurovignet-proposal • Let prestige-projects drain the funds from small-scale innovations • Thus: adapt the EU-rules (TEN’s, Structure funds) to allow smaller scale projects • Give future generations our ecological, social and financial bills. www.t-e.nu

10. OK, we all agree !! Lets make investments sustainable !! Back from the future: Where it all started... www.t-e.nu

11. Thank you for your attention. Further information can be found at our website. Ton Sledsens T&E is Europe’s primary NGO campaigning on a Europe wide level for an environmentally responsible approach to transport. info@t-e.nu Boulevard de Waterloo, 34 | 1000 Brussels Tel.: +32(0)2-502 99 09 | Fax: +32(0)2-502 99 08 | www.t-e.nu