The Kyoto 20/20 Emergency Program has set out to create a international expert platform in an attempt to encourage cities around the world to start to look at new mobility ideas and new solutions at a time when the old ones are no longer doing the job. This wide-open international collaborative program is being created to take direct aim at this challenge -- in cooperation with other programs and agencies whose reach and main competence is related but not quite identical. More than one hundred of the world's leading sustainability thinkers and practitioners are participating in this collaborative effort.

What you will see here is an information and support program aiming at very ambitious, rigorous, open and checkable short-term performance targets at the level of each participating city -- along with the tools and strategies to make it happen. It does not attempt to take on the whole range of sustainability challenges that face our cities. And not even all of the transportation challenges. It concentrates on two things. . .

1. Focus: City and short distance transport. Only!
2. Impact time horizon: 2007-2012. Projects and measures that can achieve major measurable progress in less than two, maximum four years. Only!