Clean Cities founder Barbara Stoll nominated for MOVE Women in Mobility Award 2026
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Clean Cities Campaign founder Barbara Stoll has been nominated for the MOVE Women in Mobility Award 2026, which recognises women accelerating progress in the transport and mobility sector.
The award, run by MOVE, one of Europe’s leading mobility innovation events, is decided entirely by public vote. Voting closes 10 June 2026, and the winner will be announced live at MOVE 2026 at ExCeL London on 17 June.
Barbara founded Clean Cities five years ago this month. Since then, the campaign has become Europe’s largest network of organisations dedicated to active, shared and electric urban mobility – 150 organisations across 20 European countries.
We’re incredibly proud of what the network has achieved in that time. Clean Cities advocacy helped shape the EU Ambient Air Quality Directive – the world’s most stringent clean air law. The campaign convinced the Mayor of London to lower the Congestion Charge for electric vans and lorries, supported the popular vote for 500 new green and pedestrianised streets in Paris, helped win Europe’s first zero-emission freight zones in 18 Dutch cities, and secured €10 million for cycling infrastructure in Italy. Our Streets for Kids campaign has engaged 350,000 parents, teachers and children across 300 cities in 20 countries. In total, Clean Cities’ policy wins are estimated to have contributed to up to 30 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions reductions across Europe.
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, has said: “London is cleaner and safer thanks to your work and your amazing colleagues.”
Barbara said: “I’m honoured to be nominated for the MOVE Women in Mobility Award in the month that we celebrate five years of Clean Cities. Five years in, what strikes me most is not just how far we’ve come, but how the case is being won that cities designed for people are simply better cities. And in a sector where women make up just 27% of the workforce, half our team is women. That’s something I’m very proud of.”
