Among the guiding principles of the New Urban Agenda (NAU) is the importance of strengthening mobility and sustainable urban transport. Likewise, the proposed Regional Action Plan for the implementation of NAU also seeks to promote sustainable modes of transport in the face of the challenges of climate change, urbanization and urban population growth.
CODATU and its partners, the Indian Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) and the Institute of Urban Transport in New Delhi (IUT), are pleased to welcome you to Hyderabad from November 4-6, 2017, for the 17th CODATU international conference, organized in conjunction with the 10th Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference and Exhibition.
Sunday November 4th
Moderator: Holger Dalkman, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT)
16:00 Welcome & Introduction to the Multilateral Development Banks Working Group on Sustainable Transport
Salim Refas, Islamic Development Bank
16:10 MDB Report: Special Feature on Transport and Climate Change
The Transport Thematic Day will be held on Saturday 11th November 2017 in Bonn, Germany. The event is organized by the Marrakech Partnership on Global Climate Action (MP-GCA) transport content group consisting of ITF, PPMC, UIC and UITP.
This side event will use the new Global Mobility Report—the first ever joint assessment of the transport sector globally—as the backdrop for this high-level discussion on what should be done to achieve sustainable mobility, as measured by four global goals: universal access, efficiency, safety and green mobility. The outcome of this panel discussion will feed into a new roadmap of actions towards sustainable mobility currently under preparation by the&nb
Transport contributes about one quarter of all energy related CO2 emissions and about 15-17% of all anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Under a business-as-usual scenario, transport related CO2 emissions could grow from 6-7 gigatonnes to 16-18 gigatonnes by 2050. Against such a backdrop, the target and timeline set by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (translating to an overall net-zero emission economy soon after 2050) are challenging and require bold actions towards a systemic transformation of the transport sector.
High Level Plenary on Energy, Transport – Cities Nexus, to be organized by PPMC, SE4ALL, IRENA, REN21 and others, is scheduled to take place on November 13th, 2017.
As the urban population is expected to increase by 2-3 billion people between now and 2050, urban planning offers a key tool in realizing higher density, mixed land-use cities. This should help to ensure that a greater amount of trips are made by walking or cycling and create successful enabling conditions for mass transit solutions, either by bus or rail.
Achieving “Zero Hunger” requires the transformation of the rural economy and strengthening of urban-rural connections. The High-Level Roundtable, “Rural Transformation: Climate Resilient and Low Emission Food Systems,” will discuss how rural transport and climate-smart food systems can be part of this transformation, and identify the key policy and investment needs to achieve SDG2, and the implementation of countries NDCs in two areas:
The development of climate-resilient and low-emission food systems that foster food security and nutrition and leaves no-one behind.
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