GLOBAL transport unions urged leaders at climate talks in Germany yesterday to invest in public transport jobs to cut CO2 emissions.
The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and International Association of Public Transport (UITP) offered assistance to nations at the COP23 summit in Bonn to “scale up climate action with public transport.”
ITF spokesman Andy Khan-Gordon said: “High-quality urban public transport investments will create millions of jobs.”
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
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