Working Group on Transport NAMAs kicked off in Seoul

Representatives from 17 countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America, the UNFCCC secretariat, development banks as well as experts on transport and climate change participated in the Kick-Off Meeting of a working group on transport NAMAs that was kicked-off in Seoul, Korea on April 12^th and 13^th, 2011. The Korean Transport Institute (KOTI) kindly hosted the workshop, which was supported from UNDESA, the SLoCaT Partnership and the Bridging the Gap initiative.

The workshop aimed to better understand the concept of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and how it could become a catalyst for sustainable transportation. This was supported from the climate ambassador of Korea Mr. Son Sung-Hwan who emphasized to consider the transport sector in mitigation actions.

• Conclusions and recommendations of the workshop

• Workshop Agenda

Workshop's presentations:

• The Avoid-Shift-Improve Approach (Holger Dalkmann, TRL)
• Co-Benefits of Policies and Measures to mitigate GHG emissions in land transport (Harald Diaz-Bone, GIZ)
• Clean Fleet Tool-kit to assess GHG and co-benefits (Sophie Punte and Alvin Mejia, CAI-Asia)
• Transport Emissions Evaluation Model for Projects to assess GHG and co-benefits (Sophie Punte and Alvin Mejia, CAI-Asia, and Michael Replogle, ITDP)
• Case study: Estimation of greenhouse gas emission reduction through "Avoid Shift Improve" measures in Korea (Seung Kook Wu, KOTI)
• National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Transport in Korea (Sangjin Han, KOTI)
• International developments on transport and climate change in developing countries (Thomas Hamlin, UN-DESA)
• The role of NAMAs in mitigating climate change (Son Sung-Hwan, Ambassador for Climate Change, Republic of Korea)
• Operationalization of the NAMA concept (William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu, Secretariat UNFCCC)
• SLoCaT's Efforts to Promote Transport NAMAs (Cornie Huizenga, SLoCaT Partnership)
• Bridging the Gap: an overview (Michael Replogle, ITDP)
• Introduction to TRANSfer: A new GIZ Project on Transport NAMAs (Daniel Bongardt, GIZ)
• National Environmentally Sustainable Transport Strategies as the basis for NAMAs (Choudhury Rudra Charan Mohanty, UNCRD)
• African Development Bank actions on climate change mitigation and NAMAs in the transport sector (Dominique Etienne, AfDB)
• Overview of (transport) NAMAs submitted (Harald Diaz-Bone, GIZ)

• Country Case Study Indonesia - Ongoing/planned efforts for formulation of transport NAMAs (Ministry of Transportation, Indonesia)

• Egypt's Polices for Sustainable Transport (Essam Hassan Mohamed AHMED, EEAA)

• Transport NAMAs in Mexico (Hilda Martínez Salgado, CTS Mexico)

• Transport and Climate Change in South Africa(Shumani Mugeri, South Africa Transport Department)

• Application of current NAMA thinking to the transport sector: Challenges and Opportunities (Stefan Bakker, ECN)

• Presentation and discussion results SLoCaT/BtG online survey on transport NAMAs (Cornie Huizenga, SLoCaT Partnership)

• Goal, objectives of the SLoCaT/ BtG Transport NAMA working group (Holger Dalkmann, TRL)