[sustran] Side-event Invitation:Financing Framework for Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport on July 7th during the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

[Cornie Huizenga]

Dear Colleagues,


The Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) cordially
invites you to "Financing Framework for Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport"
<http://slocat.net/event/1236>side event organized during the High Level
Political Forum on Sustainable Development's meeting. The event organized
in coordination with the Climate Bonds Initiative, and the Institute for
Transportation and Development Policy, will be held on July 7th (1.15 -
2.30 pm), in New York, United States. (Conference Room 5, North Lawn
Building, United Nations).


 Following the success experience in developing the SLoCaT Results
Framework on Sustainable Transport (www.slocat.net/resultsframework),
SLoCaT aims to facilitate the development of a Financing Framework for
Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport.  In order for the Framework to be
effective in terms of impact it will be important that it:


   - Combines climate change perspective and sustainable development
   perspective;
   - Focuses on development of infrastructure and services as well as the
   operation and maintenance of such infrastructure and services;
   - Integrates public and private sector financing;
   - Defines the specific role of Official Development Assistance (ODA) as
   well as Climate Financing.

*The side event will focus on the following key questions:*


   1. What part of GHG emission reduction measure, or other sustainability
   measures in the transport sector, can be funded through passing on the
   costs to users?
   2. How to re-direct public sector funding from supporting and enabling a
   car dominated infrastructure towards multi-modal transport infrastructure
   services which can reduce the modal share of car or truck based passenger
   and freight transport?
   3. How to tap private sector as a more significant contributor to
   develop sustainable, low carbon transport infrastructure and services?
   4. How to better leverage both public and private funding sustainable
   transport through sustainable transport directed ODA (e.g. MDB Rio+20 $ 175
   billion Voluntary Commitment)?
   5. How to make Climate Financing (e.g. Global Environment Facility,
   Clean Development Mechanism, Green Climate Fund) work better for the
   transport sector?

*Proposed Program for the side event:*


   - Welcome Remarks by Representative UN-DESA and the SLoCaT Partnership;
   - Short description of the SLoCaT Framework on Sustainable Transport and
   scoping of the proposed Financing Framework for Sustainable
Transport - *Cornie
   Huizenga*, Secretary General, Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon
   Transport;


   - Panel discussion with:

*- Michael Replogle*, Managing Director for Policy and Founder, Institute
for Transportation and Development Policy

*- Elliott Sclar*, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at
Columbia University

*- Mohammad (Reza) Salamat, *Senior Program Officer, United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs


For more information on the event, please contact Cornie Huizenga at
cornie.huizenga[at]slocatpartnership.org or visit
http://slocat.net/event/1236.


Best,

-- 
Cornie Huizenga
Secretary General
Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT)
Far East International Plaza, B 1811
317 Xianxia Road
200051 Shanghai, China

www.slocat.net
@SLOCATcornie
+8613901949332






-- 
Cornie Huizenga
Secretary General
Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT)
Far East International Plaza, B 1811
317 Xianxia Road
200051 Shanghai, China

www.slocat.net
@SLOCATcornie
+8613901949332