This side-event, organized by the Friends of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform (Costa Rica, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development, will focus on the opportunities that fossil-fuel subsidy reform holds for reducing CO2 emissions, and in particular the role of the UNFCCC in supporting that process.
From 25 November till 6 December 2013 the Capacity Development Programme was implemented in Nairobi, Kenya. Together with local organizations a partnership was formed to prepare, execute and ensure the follow-up of the Programme. The partnership existed out of: The United Nations Environment Program, Share the Road, Kenya Red Cross, ASIRT-Kenya, PAMOJA Road Safety Initative, USALAMA Watch Initiative and YOURS – Youth for Road Safety. The Programme was funded with the support of the Road Safety Fund, Michelin and TomTom.
Background to the Workshop
The Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference and Expo is an annual event with the overarching theme which runs across all the aspects of urban mobility and is organized by the Institute of Urban Transport (India) under the aegis of the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. UMI is mandated by the National Urban Transport Policy of the Government of India, 2006 (NUTP). The objective of UMI is to bring together urban transport professionals and officials in the country as well as international experts to enable them to share views and to share their experiences.
The first Africa Transport Policy Forum that will take place in Dakar, Senegal, from December 10 to 11, 2013. The forum is a 2-day learning event that will give participants a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss high-priority transport policy issues in Africa. This event will be open to all interested participants.
Seventh Session of the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals will take place on 6-10 January 2014 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The seventh session of the OWG will focus on sustainable cities and human settlements, sustainable transport, sustainable consumption and production (including chemicals and waste); and climate change and disaster risk reduction.
The SLoCaT Partnership will have a busy start to 2014 with the 7th Session of the UN General Assembly Open Working Group on SDGs which focuses in its January 7 meeting on Sustainable Transport. We expect to have a side event as well on the 7th of January. In New York, on the 8th of January we plan to discuss the Results Framework for Sustainable Transport in more detail.
For more information, please see Agenda and Summary of the Side Event.
Fia Foundation and the United Nations Environment Programme together with their partners will organize the event "Safe, Clean, Fair and Green: Sustainable Transport in the Post-2015 Agenda" on January 7, 2014. The event will take place in the Conference Room E, North Lawn Building at the United Nations in New York, United States.
On January 8th, the SLoCaT Partnership will hold a Review Meeting on Results Framework on Sustainable Transport, at the Ford Foundation in New York. It will be a whole day meeting (09.00 - 17.00) and the focus will be reviewing and discussing the Results Framework on Sustainable Transport; discussing the TRANSPORT DELIVERS campaign, including Transport Sector’s contribution to the Secretary General’s Climate Summit.
The SLoCaT Annual Meeting will take place on January 13, 2013 at the EMBARQ 10G Street NE, Suite 800 Washington DC 20002 USA.
The agenda of the meeting is as follows:
On January 15th, the SLoCaT Partnership will hold a Open Steering Committee Meeting on Results Framework on Sustainable Transport. The meeting will take place at 2:30pm-4:30pm at the ITDP Office in Washington, DC.
Transforming Transportation is the annual conference co-hosted by EMBARQ (World Resources Institute) and the World Bank in which leading transport and urban development experts from national and local governments, multilateral development banks, foundations, civil society organizations, research institutions, and businesses from around the world convene.
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