Achieving low-carbon freight transport systems is essential for the realization of a sustainable development path. Various measures could help improve the carbon footprint of freight transport and enhance its sustainability. However, effective implementation of such measures and optimization of their climate mitigation potential calls for concerted and coordinated action at all levels and requires promoting key enabling factors including finance and best practices from within and outside the freight transport sector.
Against this background, the session will consider:
Best practices in terms of green freight and low-carbon solutions that could be applied in the freight transport sector
The role of policy makers/regulators and industry players in enabling low-carbon freight transport
Potential tools and financing solutions that could support low-carbon freight transport projects and initiatives.
The target audience includes Governments, industry, IGOs, NGOs, financing institutions, academia, civil society, and, generally parties involved or interested in freight transport and its sustainability.
Programme:
Opening remarks: Ms. Helen Molin Valdes, Head, CCAC Secretariat
Moderator: UNCTAD
Panelists:
- Mr. Kamal Uddin Ahmed, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Bangladesh
- Mr. Sebastian Tolvett, Senior Advicer on Short Live Climate Pollutants, Ministry of Environment, Chile
- Mr. Donat Bagula, Executive Secretary, Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority, Kenya
- Mr. Sudhir Gota, Senior Transport and GHG Consultant, Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT)
Discussion
Wrap-up and closing: Ms. Helen Molin Valdes, Head, CCAC Secretariat
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