Speaking to journalists, Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of both the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), congragulated the British government on their Transport White Paper, calling it good news for the global environment. "The paper, which puts emphasis on reversing decades of growth in use of the private motor car through a combination of taxation measures and efforts to improve public transport systems, is an important siganal to the rest of the world," said Toepfer.