TARGETS AND ACTIONS ON TRANSPORT DECARBONISATION
In the last decade, Uruguay has made strong progress in the transformation of its energy matrix, generating opportunities to orient ourselves, also from the transport sector, towards renewable energies.
Uruguay has carried out a structural transformation in its energy matrix, achieving in just 6 years that more than 90% of the energy generated comes from renewable sources. This achievement is based on a State policy initiated in 2010, which with a medium and long-term vision has promoted the incorporation of technology and private participation in power generation, and has allowed strong investments in infrastructure, including the completion of international electrical interconnection. In this way, Uruguay is today among the world’s leading countries in the production of energy from renewable sources and has achieved sovereignty, reliability and efficiency in energy generation.
BEST PRACTICES
Sustainable Urban Mobility Project in Uruguay NUMP
Through the project Promotion of Sustainable Urban Mobility in Uruguay, the aim is to strengthen capacities in urban mobility planning and lay the foundations for a national program to promote urban electric mobility, including the development of technical, regulatory and financial instruments. . This project was proposed to the EUROCLIMA + program and was selected for its support. It addresses the electrification of urban mobility in the first place and the development of complementary strategies through urban planning, including active mobility.
Objectives
- Raise awareness, inform and strengthen capacities for planning sustainable urban mobility.
- Develop participatory areas for the development of strategies to replace fossil fuel vehicles with electric vehicles.
- Strengthen capacities in public and private spheres to facilitate vehicle electrification.
- Development of regulations and standards for new technologies
- Develop a national program to promote urban vehicle electrification
- Promote complementary strategies that strengthen sustainable urban mobility
- Strengthen capacities for planning sustainable urban mobility within the framework of land use planning instruments.
- Develop guidelines for the expansion of active transport and the incorporation of sustainable urban mobility criteria in territorial planning.
URUGUAY'S NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTION
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