The Eleventh Regional EST Forum in Asia and the Pacific, 2-5 October 2018, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia is co-organized by the Ministry of Construction and Urban Development, the Ministry of Road and Transport Development, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and Municipality of Ulaanbaatar of the Government of Mongolia; Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Japan (MOE-Japan); the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP); and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) of the Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG)/UN

The Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), under the framework of the Applied Research Programme in High Volume Transport (HVT) by the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DFID), is organising a half-day workshop in cooperation with the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) on 2 October 2018.

The Cities Conference II will be convened from October 16 to 19 in Santiago, Chile.

AEC2018 is organized by AVERE and AVERE Belgium, with our continued presence in the electromobility arena for 40 years, with the experience and track-record from organizing the EVS, the most important international Electric Vehicle Conference in the world, with EVS30 in Stuttgart as the latest edition and the EVS31 in Kobe, Japan, as the next edition.

As the time for COP24 in Katowice, Poland draws near, it is crucial that the transport community is ready to make an impact at this latest step in the multilateral climate change process. For this reason, SLoCaT is hosting an informative webinar for members as we prepare for events in December.

The 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) is held in Katowice (Poland) from 2nd to 14th December 2018. Various events at COP and off-site will discuss transport and climate change and work towards more ambitious transport climate actions.

If you are interested in organizing a transport event, please contact Mark Major: mark.major@slocatpartnership.org. Contact Nikola Medimorec (nikola.medimorec@slocatpartnership.org) if you want to add any transport event to the overview below.

Monday – December 3rd:

Venue

The Transport Day 2018 will take place at “Miejski Dom Kultury”, ul. Markiefki 44a, 40-213 Katowice. It is located about 10-15 min. walk from the COP24 congress centre (“Międzynarodowe Centrum Kongresowe”). Please refer to the map below for directions:

About the Event

The Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) is leading the production of a regular Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report (TCC-GSR) to bring together information streams on transport and climate change and to offer policy-makers and practitioners three key elements:

The Paris Process on Mobility and Climate (PPMC), a joint initiative of SLoCaT and Movin’ On, will actively engage at the Africa Climate Week. The regional climate week is from 18 to 22 March 2019 in Accra, Ghana. Please refer to the official website for general information.

Sustainable Transport Events

Our ability to correctly and efficiently model urban mobility through inclusive planning and creation of sustainable platform for implementation of best practices, yet people oriented mobility systems have critical impact on resident’s quality of life and indeed everyday functioning of our cities. Whereas, a greater majority of countries in the developed world have since realized the concern with current mobility practices and are reengineering mobility, changing mindset and developing new culture in sustainable mobility, Africa and the rest of the developing world lag behind.

The 2020 Annual Meeting of the SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport took place on the 13 January 2020 at the premises of the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington D.C.  60 participants representing nearly 40 member organisations have participated in the meeting. The meeting reviewed the activities of SLOCAT in 2019 and provided ...