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Bridging the Gap Side event at the June UNFCCC meetings in Bonn
The 2010 Bridging the Gap official side event at the June UNFCCC meetings of the Convention Bodies in Bonn on "Land transport and climate policy: moving towards closer integration" on Friday, 4th June 2010, 19:45 - 21:15 invites you to join transport and climate change specialists including academics, consultants and negotiators, to hear about and to discuss ways in which the two fields can become better integrated to deliver low carbon transport systems.
The Bridging the Gap partners worked together throughout 2009 to pursue this goal, and in 2010 are continuing to develop and explore new opportunities to realise their vision for a regime that incentivises national and local governments to achieve the GHG mitigation potential of the land transport sector. The partners encourage you to attend this side event to hear about and discuss ways of tackling climate change in the land transport sector with leading transport and policy experts.
Side event Location:
Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (FIDMED): ROOM AIR
Carbon Expo 2010: Bridging the Gap speaks at a session on cities
Carbon Expo, the world's largest carbon trade fair, took place in Cologne (Germany) from 26th to 28th May 2010. Caroline Edant from Veolia Transport gave a presentation on behalf of the Bridging the Gap initiative during the session "A city-wide approach to carbon finance" along with representatives of the World Bank, Suez Environnement, ICLEI and the city of Amman. C. Edant highlighted that Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA's) could be an opportunity to foster local mitigation actions in the transport sector in developing countries.
ADB Transport Forum concludes
The ADB Transport Forum came to its third and final day today. Roughly 30 sessions were organised, and in total 110 presentations were made by various speakers. These collectively provided a range of solutions to make transport more sustainable and climate-friendly, including for example a carbon-footprinting tool for ADB projects, and a Sustainable Transport Partnership Facility to support sustainable transport initiatives financially.
The Bridging the Gap initiative was represented on the third day by Holger Dalkmann (TRL), who spoke on "Economic policy instruments to promote sustainable, low carbon transport". Furthermore, Manfred Breithaupt (GTZ) chaired and presented at a session on capacity building. Michael Replogle (ITDP) provided concluding remarks in the final plenary.
Their presentations can be downloaded from the link below:
ADB Transport Forum Day 2: Bridging the Gap partners speak at two sessions
The 2010 ADB Transport Forum continued into its second day, covering topics such as road safety, social sustainability, green growth, low carbon transport, road asset management, financial management and urban transport. Bridging the Gap partners were invited as speakers at two sessions.
- Heather Allen (UITP) spoke on "international experience in enhancing financial sustainability of public transport in developing countries" at an activity session on financial management, facilitated by Ko Sakamoto (TRL).
- Michael Replogle (ITDP) gave a presentation titled "reorienting transport priorities to support access for all" during a session on social sustainability.
Both of their presentations can be downloaded from the below links;
ADB Transport Forum kicks off in Manila
The 2010 ADB Transport Forum "Changing Course - Pathways to Sustainable Transport" kicked off in Manila, Philippines today. The focus of this year's Forum is the Bank's Sustainable Transport Initiative (STI) which is aimed at realigning the support provided by the Bank in four areas, namely urban transport, addressing climate change, cross-border transport and logistics and road safety/social sustainability. Michael Replogle of ITDP joined the panel of respondents during the plenary session in the morning. Other Bridging the Gap partners are actively participating in various sessions throughout the 3-day session. Please check back for further news.
Bridging the Gap participates in the Annual Meeting of the SLOCAT Partnership
The Annual Meeting of the SLOCAT Partnership (www.slocat.net) was held in Manila, Philippines to reflect on the work in 2009/10, and to set out a programme of work for 2010/11. The ongoing contributions of the Bridging the Gap Initiative to the SLOCAT Partnership were highlighted in a joint presentation by Daniel Bongardt (GTZ) and Holger Dalkmann (TRL).
