Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2018 – Session on Transport in Cities

During the Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCD) 2018 in Singapore from 10 to 13 July, SLoCaT will organize in cooperation with CDP, CCAC, ICC, UITP and UNEP the Marrakech Partnership on Global Climate Action event on urban mobility. The title of the session is:

“Transport in cities – Parties and Non party stakeholders working together to deliver low carbon urban mobility”

Background

The fight against climate change will be won or lost in cities, so making urban mobility low carbon, universal and resilient is essential to tackling climate change and making cities attractive and successful.  Low carbon urban mobility requires comprehensive strategies to avoid, reduce and improve transport. Such actions are affordable, have been successfully tested at scale and bring significant sustainable development co-benefits. Parties that adopted the Paris Agreement however, cannot do this alone – sucessful implementation requires concerted action between Parties and non-Party stakeholders. This event will explore the current status and necessary steps to scale up action on urban mobility to tackle climate change in the Asia Pacific region and how Parties and and non-Party stakeholders can improve and accelerate action. 

Objective

1)      Raise ambition and improve the treatment of urban mobility in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions from Parties in the region and

2)      Stimulate co-operation between Parties and and non-Party stakeholders to deliver sustainable, low carbon urban mobility, by sharing and discussing experiences on necessary policy frameworks and best practices in fostering these partnerships.

This event will explore the current status and necessary steps to scale up action on urban mobility to tackle climate change in the Asia Pacific region and how Parties and and non-Party stakeholders can improve and accelerate action.       

Programme

Welcome Segment:

• Tomasz Chruszczow, High-level champion of the Marrakech Partnership, the Government of Poland
• His Excellency Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, UAE

Moderated Segment:

Moderator: Mr. Steve Chao, Al Jazeera

Opening:

• Mohamed Mezghani, Secretary General, UITP
  

Keynote speeches:

• Lim Jock Hoi, Secretary General, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• Eric Grab, Vice President Strategic Anticipation, Innovation & Sustainable Development, Michelin
• Sun Muqian, Chairman, TAILG electric vehicles group, Founder of Shenzhen Shenling Car, Company Ltd and Chairman of Guangdong Electric Vehicle Association, China 

Panel:

• Dechen Tsering, Regional Director of UN Environment Asia-Pacific
• Tomasz Chruszczow, High-level champion of the Marrakech Partnership, the Government of Poland  
• Mohamed Mezghani, Secretary General, UITP
• Eric Nietsch, Associate Director of Corporate Ratings Asia-Pacific, S&P Global Ratings Singapore

Questions and comments from the floor  

Conclusions and close: Talya Enriquez, Chief Operating Officer, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT)

SLoCaT contacts:

Co-ordinator: Mark Major (mark.major@slocatpartnership.org)  
On site: Talya Enriquez Romano (talya.enriquezromano@slocatpartnership.org)