The 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) is held in Katowice (Poland) from 2nd to 14th December 2018. Various events at COP and off-site will discuss transport and climate change and work towards more ambitious transport climate actions.
If you are interested in organizing a transport event, please contact Mark Major: mark.major@slocatpartnership.org.
Contact Nikola Medimorec (nikola.medimorec@slocatpartnership.org) if you want to add any transport event to the overview below.
Picture above shows COP24 host city Katowice, taken by Therud.
The overview will be updated constantly.
| Monday – December 3rd | |||||
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| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Clean Air Challenge: transport and heating solutions for better air quality | EIT InnoEnergy | EU Side Event | Room Brussels, EU Pavilion | TBD |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Achieving the IMO GHG reduction objectives: Fossil fuels, climate change and economic development |
University College London and IPIECA | Official Event | COP Venue, Room 5 | Jim Herbertson, jim.herbertson@ipieca.org |
| Tuesday – December 4th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Creating a market for innovation. Experiences in funding environmental R&D projects in the problem-driven research approach | NCBR | Polish Pavilion Event | Polish Pavilion | TBD |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | MDB Event on E-Mobility | World Bank | MDB Pavilion Event | MDB Pavilion | TBD |
| 10:15 – 11:30 | Can Maritime Transportation Deliver on the Paris Agreement? | TBD | Nordic Pavilion Event | Nordic Pavilion | TBD |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Electrification of mobility: a one-off opportunity for EU industry towards carbon neutrality by 2050 | EIT InnoEnergy and Eurelectric | EU Side Event | Room Vienna, EU Pavilion | TBD |
| 10:30 – 12:30 | Infrastructure, transport, energy storage | ME | Polish Pavilion Event | Polish Pavilion | TBD |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Declaration Driving Change Together – Katowice Partnership for Electromobility | COP Presidency | Official Event | Plenary Room Slask | TBD |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Innovative e-mobility technologies – presentations of companies | TBD | Polish Pavilion Event | Polish Pavilion | TBD |
| 12:30 – 13:45 | Panel Discussion: the Future of Electromobility | COP Presidency | Official Event | Plenary Room Slask | TBD |
| 13:15 – 14:30 | Do We Even Need Railroads and Ships in the 21st Century? | TBD | Nordic Pavilion Event | Nordic Pavilion | TBD |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Leader of electromobility | PSPA and PwC | Polish Pavilion Event | Polish Pavilion | TBD |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | CORSIA-deal and Carbon-Neutral Growth in Aviation – Will These Policies Deliver Needed Reductions? | TBD | Nordic Pavilion Event | Nordic Pavilion | TBD |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | No Tarce Expedition 2019 – Around the world by electric car | COP Presidency | Official Event | Plenary Room Slask | TBD |
| 16:00 – 19:30 | Sustainable business & wind farms on the Baltic | ORLEN | Polish Pavilion Event | Polish Pavilion | TBD |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Leapfrogging to Electric Mobility as a strategy to decarbonization in Latin America | Costa Rica, NDC Partnership, UN Environment and Transport Decarbonisation Alliance | NDC Partnership Pavilion Event | NDC Partnership Pavilion | TBD |
| Wednesday – December 5th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 13:30 – 15:30 | From the skies or the sea: How can regulation align international transport with the Paris goals | NewClimate Institute, European Commission (Climate Action) and Transport & Environment | EU Side Event | Room Brussels, EU Pavilion | TBD |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Innovative climate technologies and sustainable maritime transport for a climate resilient industry | UN | Official Side Event | Room 1 | Cassandra Pillay, C.Pillay@unido.org |
| Thursday – December 6th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 9:00 – 18:00 | Transport Day 2018 | CIVITAS, City of Katowice, PPMC | Off-Site Event | Miejski Dom Kultury | Chris Dekki, chris.dekki@slocatpartnership.org |
| 18:00 – 22:00 | Clean Mobility Reception | CIVITAS, City of Katowice, PPMC | Off-Site Event | Pałac Goldsteinów, pl. Wolności 12a | Alice Yiu, alice.yiu@slocatpartnership.org |
| Friday – December 7th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Countries, Cities and Companies working together to decarbonise transport | Transport Decarbonisation Alliance | Action Hub Event | Action Hub | Mark Major, mark.major@slocatpartnership.org |
| 10:30 – 12:30 | Transport Decarbonisation – How to make it happen! | Transport Decarbonisation Alliance and IDDRI | French Side Event | French Pavilion | Adele Fardoux, adele.fardoux@i-carre.net; Yann Briand, yann.briand@iddri.org |
| 10:00 – 11:15 | Smart and Green Transport for Sufficient Society | Eco-Mo Foundation | Japan Side Event | Japan Pavilion | Masaru Kumai, m-kumai@ecomo.or.jp |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | MP Transport: How to include transport in NDCs | UNFCCC, Marrakech Partnership | Action Hub Event | Action Hub | TBD |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Shared Mobility: The Power to Slash CO2 | International Transport Forum | Action Hub Event | Action Hub | TBD |
| 15:00 – 18:00 | Global Climate Action event – Transport | UNFCCC / Transport Content Group | Official Event | COP Venue | Mark Major, mark.major@slocatpartnership.org |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Transnational Transportation Policy Collaboration in North America & Europe | Georgetown University and Université de Montréal (UdeM) | Official Side Event | Room 5 | Joanna Lewis, jil9@georgetown.edu Mark Purdon, mark.purdon@iqcarbone.org |
| 16:45 – 18:15 | Contributions of international transport to global climate mitigation | Oeko Institute and Transport & Environment | Official Side Event | Room 5 | Lucy Gilliam, lucy.gilliam@transportenvironment.org |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Policy Pathways for Decarbonising Transport | ITF, UITP and UIC | Official Side Event | Room 5 | Wei-Shiuen Ng, wei-shiuen.ng@itf-oecd.org, Philip Turner, philip.turner@uitp.org, Marie Luz Philippe , PHILIPPE@uic.org and Carole Escolan Zeno <ESCOLAN-ZENO@uic.org |
| Saturday – December 8th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Launch of the Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report 2018 | SLoCaT | Action Hub Event | Action Hub | Karl Peet, karl.peet@slocatpartnership.org |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Transport NDC´s and Transport Action in the Islamic Development Bank´s region | SLoCaT and IsDB | MDB Side Event | MDB Pavilion | Karl Peet, karl.peet@slocatpartnership.org |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Accelerating the transition to zero emission vehicles | International Zero-Emission Vehicle Alliance | UK Pavilion Event | UK Pavilion | Rob Gould, rob.gould@olev.gsi.gov.uk; Dale Hall, d.hall@theicct.org |
| 10:00 – 12:30 | Site Visit to Alstom Manufacturing Facility | Alstom | Technical Visit (Invite-only) | Alstom Facility, Katowice | Isabelle Tourancheau-Grigoriev, isabelle.tourancheau-grigoriev@alstomgroup.com |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | EUROCLIMA+ in action: Promoting sustainable urban mobility together with local actors in Latin America |
European Commission – DEVCO G2 and European Commission (International Cooperation and Development) | EU Side Event | Room Brussels, EU Pavilion | Guillermo Dascal, guillermo.dascal@euroclimaplus.org |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Decarbonising city and road transportation | Ministry for Innovation of Poland, The Polish Biofuel Chamber and the Climate Ethanol Alliance | Polish Pavilion Event | Polish Pavilion | Zoltán Szabó, zoltan.szabo@latensdimenzio.com |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | From COP23 to COP24: A year of action for MobiliseYourCity Partnership | MobiliseYourCity Partnership | French Pavilion | French Pavilion | Maël Martinie, mmartinie@codatu.org |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Transport Solutions for a Transition to Low Carbon Economies in Africa | AfDB- PICU 2 | African Development Bank (AfDB) Pavilion Event | African Development Bank (AfDB) Pavilion | TBD |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Mobility transition in our cities: Prioritising people – decarbonising transport | Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) | TUMI Side Event | German Pavilion | Armin Wagner, armin.wagner@giz.de |
| Monday – December 10th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Roundtable Oceans and Transport | UNFCCC / Transport and Oceans Content Groups | Official Event | COP Venue | Mark Major, mark.major@slocatpartnership.org |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | A matter of urgency: How to get transport on a fast track to decarbonization | Agora | German Pavilion Event | German Pavilion | TBD |
| Tuesday – December 11th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Sustainable Mobility: Global Climate Action on Transport – Transport Decarbonisation Alliance | The Netherlands, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management; Transport Decarbonisation Alliance | Benelux Pavilion Event | Benelux Pavilion | Mario Fruianu, Mario.Fruianu@minienm.nl |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report 2018 Press Conference | SLoCaT | Press Conference | Press Center | Karl Peet, karl.peet@slocatpartnership.org |
| Wednesday – December 12th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Electric Mobility – A way to develop green cities | Morocco and IRESEN | Moroccan Pavilion Event | Moroccan Pavilion | benabdelaziz@iresen.org |
| Thursday – December 13th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Decarbonisation of EU Transport – long term strategy | Transport & Environment, Oeko Institute, UN and Wuppertal Institute | EU Side Event | Room Brussels, EU Pavilion | Lucy Gilliam, lucy.gilliam@transportenvironment.org |
| 16:45 – 18:15 | Technological Transfer in Transport Sector for Pacific Clean Transport implementation | Pacific Islands Development Forum* (PIDF) | Official Side Event | Wisła Side Event Room 5 | Mark Borg, mark.borg@pidf.int |
| Friday – December 14th | |||||
| Time | Title of the Event | Organizers & Co-organizers | Type of the Event | Venue | Contact Person |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Transforming maritime transport: Global policy action and the role of SIDS/LDCs |
University College London and University of the South Pacific | Pacific & Koronivia Pavilion Event | Pacific & Koronivia Pavilion | Daniel Besley, dbesley@worldbank.org |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Ghana’s Premier Emission Reduction Agenda: Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme and Electric Bus Project | HATOF Foundation and Ghana | Official Side Event | Room 2 | Samuel Confidence Dotse, atenviron@hotmail.com MaryJane Enchill, mjane.enchill@gmail.com |
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