{"id":23362,"date":"2025-03-06T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T10:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23362"},"modified":"2025-03-06T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T10:25:07","slug":"clearing-the-way-for-bicyclists-for-a-healthier-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23362","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the Way for Bicyclists, for a Healthier Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jill Warren heads the European Cyclists\u2019 Federation, a Brussels-based nongovernmental organization that advocates cycling to help lower carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

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This article is part of a Women and Leadership special report<\/a> highlighting women who are charting new pathways and fighting for opportunities for women and others.<\/p>\n

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Jill Warren<\/a> was in corporate law firms for 20 years, doing business development and working as chief marketing officer. But in her private life, cycling was her absolute passion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cycled for daily mobility,\u201d she said in a phone interview, \u201cand a holiday wasn\u2019t complete without taking a bike along.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many people, she had cycled as a child. But when she got her driver\u2019s license at age 16, like most teenagers in American towns like Cary, Ill., the Chicago suburb where she grew up, the car was her main means of transport.<\/p>\n

That changed when she was studying abroad in Freiburg, Germany, where \u201cabsolutely everybody cycled.\u201d There, she said, \u201cI rediscovered cycling.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now 56, she is the chief executive of the European Cyclists\u2019 Federation<\/a> (E.C.F.), a Brussels-based nongovernmental organization that advocates cycling as a sustainable and healthy form of transport and leisure. The conversation has been edited and condensed.<\/p>\n

Why is the federation\u2019s work necessary?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a chance to make a big difference to people\u2019s health, the environment and the livability of cities. Transport is responsible for about 27 percent of global carbon emissions<\/a>. Road vehicles account for about three quarters of transport CO2 emissions, and this isn\u2019t decreasing. A recent study<\/a> found that people who cycle daily have 84 percent lower carbon dioxide emissions than noncyclists.<\/p>\n

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Jill Warren heads the European Cyclists\u2019 Federation, a Brussels-based nongovernmental organization that advocates cycling to help lower carbon emissions.This article is part of a Women and Leadership special report highlighting women who are charting new pathways and fighting for opportunities for women and others.Jill Warren was in corporate law firms for 20 years, doing business development and working as chief marketing officer. But in her private life, cycling was her absolute passion.\u201cI cycled for daily mobility,\u201d she said in a phone interview, \u201cand a holiday wasn\u2019t complete without taking a bike along.\u201dLike many people, she had cycled as a child. But when she got her driver\u2019s license at age 16, like most teenagers in American towns like Cary, Ill., the Chicago suburb where she grew up, the car was her main means of transport.That changed when she was studying abroad in Freiburg, Germany, where \u201cabsolutely everybody cycled.\u201d There, she said, \u201cI rediscovered cycling.\u201dNow 56, she is the chief executive of the European Cyclists\u2019 Federation (E.C.F.), a Brussels-based nongovernmental organization that advocates cycling as a sustainable and healthy form of transport and leisure. The conversation has been edited and condensed.Why is the federation\u2019s work necessary?It\u2019s a chance to make a big difference to people\u2019s health, the environment and the livability of cities. Transport is responsible for about 27 percent of global carbon emissions. Road vehicles account for about three quarters of transport CO2 emissions, and this isn\u2019t decreasing. A recent study found that people who cycle daily have 84 percent lower carbon dioxide emissions than noncyclists.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23364,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23365,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23362\/revisions\/23365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}