Day: Tuesday, May 2nd 2017.
Time: 08:30-10:00 am CST (time in Costa Rica)
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Agenda
Introduction.
Ana María Majano. Coordinator of the LEDS LAC Secretariat, Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE).
Jan Karremans. Director of the Technical Assistance, EUROCLIMA.
1. Climate finance for low-carbon and resilient cities. Silvia Brugger. Technical Advisor of the Technical Assistance, EUROCLIMA.
2. Climate finance: a catalyst for sustainable mobility in Latin American cities. Carlos Felipe Pardo. Consultant of the Technical Assistance of EUROCLIMA, Executive Director of NGO Despacio, Colombia.
3. The deployment of electric mobility in Latin America. Alejandro Moreno. Programme Coordinator, UN Environment.
4. Sustainable urban mobility: an experience from Colombia. Florentino Márquez. Environment Adviser Sustainable Urban Mobility Unit, Transport Ministry, Colombia.
About the webinar
Improving the sustainability of urban transport in Latin America through a modal shift, the deployment of emerging technologies and other measures is of vital importance for the fight against climate change and entails various co-benefits such as improved health and air quality.
Significant investments are needed to increase the sustainability of urban transport and mitigate climate change. Public sector climate finance represents an important catalyst to attract the necessary private finance. To facilitate access to available funds, climate change considerations should be better integrated into urban mobility projects. EUROCLIMA has been supporting Latin American countries to formulate climate finance proposals. This webinar will share examples and experiences to improve access to climate finance for sustainable urban mobility in Latin America.
The webinar will be held in Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the Secretariat of the LEDS LAC Platform: info@ledslac.org.
About the panelists
Political scientist with a master’s in intercultural communication and international law; climate change and energy expert. She has been Director of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Program of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Brussels, among other activities organizing and moderating debates in Lima (COP20), Panama and other countries. She has experience in political and economic transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean and worked at the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) in Munich.Psychologist with a master´s degree in urbanism. He has given technical advice on transport, urban development and climate change in more than 30 cities in Asia, Latin America and Africa. He has been coordinator of the «Sustainable Urban Transport Project for Latin America and Asia» of the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ), and Colombia Director of the Institute for Policies for Transport and Development.Engineer with an MBA and PhD in Economics. Alejandro is currently working for UN Environment in the Climate Change Unit of the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Panama, coordinating the EUROCLIMA-UN Environment project. He is an expert on urban mobility and has participated in numerous climate change mitigation projects around the world.
Master of Engineering from the University of Andes with undergraduate studies in Environmental Engineering and complementary studies in art. Researcher and consultant on air pollution, sustainable mobility, institutional development, citizen behavior and participatory construction of public policies. He is currently advisor at the Sustainable Urban Mobility Unit (UMUS) of the Colombian Ministry of Transport, where he supports the formulation and implementation of policies and projects to mitigate greenhouse gases in urban public transport.
EUROCLIMA is a programme funded by the European Union.
