International Initiatives and Success Stories in the Adoption of Electric Buses for Public Passenger Transport in LAC
Date: Wednesday, October 9th, 2019.Time: 09:00 – 10:30 am (Time in Costa Rica, CST)Verify the time according to your location: http://bit.ly/2oJ1F2Y
Agenda
Welcome. Rodriguez Tornquist. Coordinator of the Transport Working Group of the LEDS LAC Platform, Asociación Civil Sustentar.
The Action towards Climate-friendly Transport (ACT) initiative. Maruxa Cardama. Secretary General, SLoCaT Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon. | Download presentation
Supporting Urban Reductions in GHG Emissions (SURGE). Vladimir Sosa. Electric Mobility Manager for Latin America at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, World Resources Institute (WRI). | Download presentation
The process of adopting electric buses in the transport system of Santiago de Chile. Fernando Saka. Director of Metropolitan Mobility of Santiago de Chile, Ministry of Transport of Chile. | Download presentation
About the webinar
Mitigation in the transport sector is key to the implementation of NDCs and the adoption of electric buses offers a unique opportunity for climate action. At the recent UN Climate Change Summit, governments, businessmen and NGOs raised the call for greater action to combat climate change, presenting the Action towards Climate-friendly Transport (ACT) initiative, a global coalition to decarbonize transport and the Supporting Urban Reductions in GHG Emissions (SURGE) initiative, a multi-regional platform that seeks to accelerate the adoption of electric buses. Also, the city of Santiago de Chile represents a concrete case in the lead towards the incorporation of electric bus fleet in its public transport systems.
The webinar aims to share the initiatives with decision makers and experts in the region, in order to encourage new cities to start a path of developing electric mobility in their public transport systems. The webinar will be held in Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the LEDS LAC Platform Secretariat: info@ledslac.org.Passionate about social, economic and environmental justice for human development, Maruxa is a specialist in integrated urban and territorial development. Maruxa has worked with multilateral institutions, national and local governments, NGOs and philanthropy in 33 countries developing public policies, training and governance projects and multi-stakeholder coalitions aimed at advancing sustainability and equitable prosperity.Electro Mobility Manager for Latin America, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. Based in Mexico City, he leads efforts to design and implement electromobility projects. Prior to joining WRI, Vladimir was a director at the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) in charge of the National Department of Energy Efficiency, Distribution and Electromobility. He has more than 10 years of experience in Mexican government and politics, as well as in senior executive positions in the energy sector in his country.Director of Metropolitan Public Transport, the entity in charge of managing and designing the modal integration of Santiago’s urban public transport policies. He is an Industrial Civil Engineer from the Universidad del Desarrollo de Concepción, Master of Science in Operations Management from The University of Nottingham, and a Diploma in Finance from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Before becoming Director, he was in charge of the Department of Regulation and Finance of the DTPM since the beginning of the government.