“The national kick-off meeting reinforced the idea that the national governments work with cities directly,” says Pablo Tabares, director of ICLEI’s EcoLogistics project in South America. Learn how EcoLogistics is building multilevel partnerships, scaling solutions and planning ahead to improve freight efficiency. Read this blog post here: https://iclei.org/en/media/3-argentine-cities-join-global-effort-to-update-urban-freight-through-ecologistics

More on EcoLogistics
The EcoLogistics project will deliver capacity to governmental and non-governmental actors to build strategies and policies to promote low carbon and more sustainable urban freight in 9 local governments in Argentina, Colombia and India. The project is supported by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) through their International Climate Initiative (IKI)

• More on the importance of addressing urban freight from ICLEI’s Tsu-Jui Cheng.
• More on the project kick-off in India. 
• More on the project: https://ecomobility.org/ecologistics/