Programme of the Symposium: “Climate Change: A common opportunity to transfort urban transport?”

At
the twenty-first Conference of the Parties (COP21) that will be held in Paris in December 2015, the negotiations should establish a new international agreement to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. Eighteen years after the signature of Kyoto Protocol, this new agreement should bring a binding framework -entering into force by 2020- to fight against climate change.

On September the 23rd, 2014, the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, is organizing an international summit that aims to prepare the discussions that will take place in November 2014 during the COP20 in Lima. It is in this context that this symposium, organized by CODATU and its partners takes all it sense. In fact it aims to remind the role that can be played by urban transport in developed countries as in developing countries on mitigating climate change, to review the advancement of the negotiations and take into consideration their impact on urban transport sector, and to mobilize the transport stakeholders in France for them to get the fight against global warming as an opportunity to innovate and improve mobility-offering especially in urban areas.

Programme of the symposium

08h30-9H00 : WELCOMING AND REGISTRATION

9h00- 9h15 : OPENING

• Christian PHILIP, Secretary General of CODATU
  

09h15-10h20 : ROUND TABLE 1: LOCAL STAKES LINKED TO LOW CARBON URBAN MOBILITY

• Christian PHILIP, Secretary General of CODATU
• Jean-Baptiste GERNET, City and Community Councilor of Strasbourg
• Louis NEGRE, President of the Transport Authorities Association – GART
• Robert COUZON, Vice-President of the Organizing transports Authority of Clermont-Ferrand

10h50- 12h20 : ROUND TABLE 2: RESPOND TOGETHER TO CLIMATE CHALLENGES

• Christophe NAJDOVSKI, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of Transportation
• John DULAC, International Energy Agency, IEA’s urban transport scenarios and pending questions
• Mary CRASS, International Transport Forum : Transport and climate stokes in developing countries
• Cornie HUIZENGA, Partnership on Sustainable Low-Carbon Transport, What engagements for transport at UN- Climate Summit? What challenges for transport sector by COP21?
• Anne ODIC, French Agency of Development

Lunch

13h45- 14h45 : Measuring transport MITIGATION potential

• Damien VERRY, CEREMA : “Know better to reduce more” on a national context
• Mathieu SAUJOT, IDDRI: Better assess the cost and benefits of climate action in urban transport for better financing
• Jurg GRÜTTER, Grütter Consulting: Climate finance and sustainable urban transport: Experience from CDM and lessons from NAMAs
  

14h45 – 15h30: Co-benefits from sustainable urban transport policies

• Christophe MARVILLET, Professor at the CNAM Paris
  
• Ali HUZAYYIN, President of the Human Settlements Global Research Network Advisory Board
  
• Laurent DAVEZIES, Professor at the CNAM Paris
  

15h30- 16h00 : Transport initiatives for a low-carbon mobility

• Jerome POURBAIX, International Union of Public Transport : Public transport stakeholders commit for climate action
• John DULAC, Global Fuel Economy Initiative: Clean Vehicles and Improved Fuel Efficiency
• Heather ALLEN, Bridging the Gap initiative : Electric urban mobility
• Ronan DANTEC, United Cities and Local Governments: Climate action export by decentralized cooperation

16h00 Conclusion

• Sylvie LEMMET, Directorate of European and International Affairs, Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy

16h15 : TRIBUTE TO JEAN-CLAUDE ZIV

• In presence of Olivier FARON, Administrator of the CNAM

16h45 : End