Ian Gordon from the UN Vienna Sustainable and Innovative Initiatives Club and Ambassador Corinne Kitsell introduce the #BikeBlue initiative, encouraging staff at the Vienna International Centre to cycle to work
The whole initiative the conversation uh hashtag bike blue was started really in response to lots of comments from colleagues about how they’d like to cycle to and from the vic but then also after the summer holidays after all the cove had locked down nice to get out and
About really before the winter weather so people have responded very well we’ve got over 100 people on the mailing list and we’ve been organizing kind of group rides to from the vic so colleagues who are more experienced and know the routes to and from helping other colleagues to cycle in and out of
The vic the uk mission actively supports initiatives to encourage people to cycle to work and we’re really happy to be supporting ian and his colleagues in the un vienna sustainable and innovative initiatives club um to encourage more of their friends and colleagues to cycle to work here at the un vienna it’s
An initiative within a club which covers all of the agencies at the vic so not only the iaea but it’s been supported by the vienna office of the un environment program colleagues at ctbto and all the other organizations and the real motivation behind it was well the vic is
A great place to cycle to and from i enjoy cycling it’s very sustainable it’s good for the planet it’s great for your health and fitness it’s great for your mental health and of course vienna is a beautiful city to cycling with a great cycling infrastructure the infrastructure is great and the city of
Vienna have been really supportive they’ve been handing out free maps of all the cycle paths and yeah it’s all good we’re really happy to support this initiative right now because 70 of global emissions are generated in cities and with the uk hosting cop26 in glasgow in a in a few
Weeks time we see cycling to work as one of the great ways to help to bring down urban emissions