Global Climate Action Partnership

Global Climate Action Partnership - Leadership Group for Clean Transport in Asia

The Global Climate Action Partnership is an incubator for knowledge and solutions that can be scaled up, leading the way to climate-resilient low-emission development. It is a platform of climate leaders, that is owned by its members – providing an enabling environment for collaborative and ambitious climate action, learning and peer to peer exchange.

SLOCAT co-leads the Transport Working Group of the Global Climate Action Partnership (GCAP, formerly the Low Emissions Development Strategies Global Partnership), together with the Asociación Sustentar, the USA Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the United Nations Environment Programme. SLOCAT is also a member of the Asia LEDS Partnership Steering Committee.

In Asia, the ‘Leadership Group for Clean Transport in Asia (LG-CTA)’, was established in June 2021 as a mechanism to support technical and policy leads from member countries that have come together as a collaborative group to work towards cleaner and sustainable transportation in the region. The LG-CTA is one of the central Regional Engagement Frameworks of the Asia LEDS Partnership, each of which is designed to reach a specialised target audience that will consequently result in specific high-impact outcomes. It is a membership-based group of policy and technical leads, who will be supported with multilateral activities (e.g. capacity building workshops, technical trainings and study tours, peer learning) on topics that are identified and prioritised by member countries (e.g. transport and associated sectors including energy and buildings). SLOCAT is an implementing partner of the LGCTA, along with ICLEI South Asia and NREL.

Knowledge Management and Diffusion

The Transport Working Group’s global efforts focus on providing knowledge products on the benefits and co-benefits of GCAP and NDCs that are accessible to members in all regions, as well as opportunities for members to learn from peers and experts at regional and international forums.

Regional Capacity Building

The Transport Working Group coordinates with the Regional Platforms (e.g. Asia, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean and Europe & Eurasia) and other GCAP Working Groups (e.g. Subnational Integration, Finance, Energy) to design activities that are relevant to the specific needs of the region.

In-country Support

In-depth, advisory support is provided on request. Experts from around the world will be available to provide objective advice, conduct reviews and brief assessments, collect data and recommend sources of longer-term support for individuals and organizations planning and implementing sustainable transport systems.

Key Highlights

The Leadership Group at CEM14/M18

The CEM14/MI-8 side event, Accelerating the energy transition in Asia’s transport through sustainable and equitable e-mobility, brought together government representatives and practitioners from across the NDC-TIA and Leadership Group for Clean Transport in Asia (LG-CTA) network to discuss the development of transport decarbonization pathways and strategies in Asian countries. It was an enriching experience, with insightful discussions, impactful presentations, and meaningful networking opportunities. The roundtable included representatives from various organizations, including NITI Aayog, CESL, NREL, Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Kingdom of the Netherlands, DHL Group, OMI foundation, Agora Verkehrswende, ICCT, ITF, SLOCAT Partnership, WRI India, and GIZ.

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Four-part technical training series for the Leadership Group for Clean Transport in Asia

After receiving member countries priority impact areas and preferred modalities of support, this training series was specifically designed to support in-country and regional key policy and technical leads achieve ambitious impacts working towards a clean and sustainable transport sector. The training series consists of four phases that will be implemented across six months in 2023 and will be open to all Leadership Group Points of Contacts and their colleagues. The training will kick off with a virtual training session (May and June 2023), which will be followed by knowledge sharing events (Q3 2023) and will culminate in an in-person training and study tour (Q4 2023).

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High Ambition Leadership Group Dialogue: Regional Hub to Work towards Zero-Emission Transport Vision

SLOCAT co-organised the second roundtable dialogue of the Asia Clean Mobility High Ambition Leadership Groupco with ICLEI, NREL,, NITI Aayog, with support from the Department of State of the USA. Representatives from nine countries identified priority impact areas for a non-binding, regional collaboration plan for transport decarbonisation and sustainable economic development.

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Other Activities

A platform for knowledge sharing and peer-exchange:

The 2nd Roundtable of the Asia Clean Mobility High Ambition Leadership Group under the Global Climate Action Partnership (formerly LEDS GP) took place on 6-7 September in New Delhi, India. The event was co-organised by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL, NITI Aayog and SLOCAT and supported by the Department of State of the United States of America. Representatives from nine countries identified priority impact areas for a non-binding, regional collaboration plan for transport decarbonisation and sustainable economic development.
Seminar on Integrating electric mobility and renewable energy to discuss the pathways for energy and transport sector-coupling.
Moving Forward Series #2 on Renewables and Transport (authored by Angel Cortez from the SLOCAT Secretariat).
Moving Forward Paper Series on Pandemic Recovery for active mobility, jobs, sustainable freight and travel behaviour impacts (authored by the second cohort of SLOCAT Young Leaders):
- Opening streets for people by Seble Samuel
- Job creation through green transport by Cyprine Odada
- Sustainable freight transport in the aftermath of the pandemic by Agnivesh Pani
- Behavioural change and the pandemic by Érika Martins Silva Ramos
Side event on the future of e-mobility in Asia at the Asia Clean Energy Forum 2021, co-organised with the United States Agency for International Development and National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
2020 Asia LEDS Partnership Symposium (December 2020, Taipei): Hosted by the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs to promote further exchanges and cooperation on the low carbon industry between Taiwan and other ALP members. Policy Analysis and Strategic Communications Officer Alice Yiu presented policy implications of the global processes on climate change and sustainable development for the transport sector.
Co-organised the Pre-event on ‘Tracking progress in Asia’s transport transformation – Opportunities for linking SDG and NDC reporting’ under the NDC Transport Initiative for Asia (NDC-TIA) and the Low Emissions Development Strategy Global Partnership (LEDS GP) Transport Working Group to explore ideas towards a more integrated and structured reporting mechanism for the transport sector.
Experiences and challenges in implementing electric mobility initiatives (November 2020): Co-organised with the Asia LEDS Partnership and provided a status update on electric mobility trends adopted in different countries.
Intersection of Transparency, LTS, and Transportation in Asia (September 2020): Presented during a workshop series planned by USAID and ICF on transparency and long-term strategies.
Participation of SLOCAT Secretary General Maruxa Cardama in a webinar series on post-COVID transitions (July 2020), focused on assisting developing countries to recover from the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis.
Deep Transition and Integration of Power and Transport Systems (January 2020, Washington, DC): Co-led with the LEDS Energy Working Group and Reiner Lemoine Institut. It aimed to build capacity and increase knowledge of APEC member economies on integrated transportation and electricity systems. Brought together 30 individuals representing APEC islands and economies, international organisations and leading research institutes.
Co-organisation of workshop, ‘Using Green Recovery for fast-tracking NDCs implementation in the transport sector in Asia’ (July 2020) with GIZ: To foster peer-to-peer exchange on good practices and build a network in Asia.