September 2011: The UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe have published a leaflet titled “Clean and Healthy Jobs in Transport: Launching a New Partnership under THE PEP.” This leaflet follows up on the Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) High level Meeting held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2009, and THE PEP 2010 Symposium on green and healthy-friendly investments and jobs in transport.

The purpose of the partnership is to bring together interested States, experts and policy-makers from the transport, environment and health sectors and develop a set of actions and joint projects aiming at: stimulating a debate and a shared understanding on what a green and healthy job in transport is by bringing environmental and health considerations into the existing discussion on “green jobs” creation; documenting the breadth of existing experiences in Europe and other parts of the world with new policies and approaches for creating green and healthy jobs in transport; analysing the potential of greening “old jobs” and creating “new green jobs” in transport and mobility and assessing the qualitative and quantitative impact of such approaches have on the environment, health, transport and the economy; sharing good practice and disseminating the experiences, policies and approaches; and developing strategies and actions for stakeholders to implement Goal 1 of the Amsterdam Declaration in order to promote green jobs in transport. [Publication: “Clean and Healthy Jobs in Transport: Launching a New Partnership under THE PEP”]