Therefore, we should not only think about sustainable transport from an environmental point of view, but also about how to put our ideas across to a wider public by concrete action. The starting point for the sustainability debate is the threat to ecological cycles on a global scale. We need to reconcile ecology, economics and social considerations, starting with ecology.
Ecology forms the basis of all our actions.
In this respect, the industrialised nations bear a key responsibility. I want to underline the importance of what Mr. von Weizsaecker just said. However, while governments fully agree with your words from an environmental point of view, the view transport and industry ministers hold is often quite different. This is where we need even more support than is provided right now. At the same time, in the absence of alternatives, many developing and newly industrialised countries are on the verge of adopting our model of living and thus of transport.