Brussels, 13/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - With the ending of the sixteenth international United Nations climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, on Friday 10 December 2010, the International Public Transport Association (UITP) called for public transport to be included in policies to tackle climate change as a matter of urgency, particularly urban transport. UITP stresses the contribution that public transport can make to a low carbon economy. It currently creates 23% of the world's energy-consumption-related CO2 emissions and has to be included if the carbon footprint is to be slashed by 2050, explains UITP, calling for an increased share of transport in towns and cities to be public transport, particularly in the most congested and highly populated places. People living in cities where there is public transport so that they do not have to drive a car generate 2.4 tonnes of carbon per capita a year less than in towns where private car transport predominates, adds UITP. (A.By. trans fl)