{"id":4269,"date":"2015-09-10T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2015-09-10T15:13:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:13:39","slug":"buses-bikes-and-busting-a-big-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/buses-bikes-and-busting-a-big-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"buses, bikes and busting a big myth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bus<\/a><\/p>\n

The idea that addressing climate change is too expensive and will damage the economy has persisted over the years. But this week, a group of economists released a report that busts that myth.<\/p>\n

The report, called Accelerating Low-Carbon Development in the World\u2019s Cities<\/a>, was produced by New Climate Economy, and released Tuesday, September 8. New Climate Economy is a group of economists who came together specifically to explore the costs \u2013 and the benefits \u2013 of addressing climate change.<\/p>\n

The economists\u2019 research found that \u201cinvesting in public and low emission transport, building efficiency, and waste management in cities could generate savings with a current value of US$17 trillion by 2050,\u201d according to New Climate Economy\u2019s news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The kicker? They say, \u201cOne way to unlock that savings is to promote bikes and buses,\u201d according to yesterday\u2019s Wired magazine article<\/a> that details the report.<\/p>\n

And, as Wired<\/em> says, \u201cThe key is for city leaders to consider things like cycling infrastructure and bus rapid transit not a burden, but an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here at vivaNext, we<\/a> couldn\u2019t<\/a> agree<\/a> more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the Wired<\/em> article<\/a>, the report<\/a>, and the news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to subscribe<\/a> to email updates about the progress of the vivaNext project, and to see some videos of our staff contributing to the environment over the years, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The idea that addressing climate change is too expensive and will damage the economy has persisted over the years. But this week, a group of economists released a report that busts that myth. The report, called Accelerating Low-Carbon Development in the World\u2019s Cities, was produced by New Climate Economy, and released Tuesday, September 8. New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4273,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}