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Online symposiumWalking and Cycling: Effective Actions Essential to Reaching the Climate Goals
The symposium will be an occasion to:
- Hear from high-level policy and decision makers who are leading the way on active travel.
- Learn about effective walking and cycling actions by PATH partners and supporters that are helping to reach the climate goals.
- Brief PATH partners and supporters on activities, and prepare PATH’s engagement for COP 29.
Missed the event? Don’t worry, you can watch the VOD to re-live the inaugural PATH Symposium.
Programme
14:00 – 14:05 (BST) | Welcome and introduction
14:05 – 14:20 (BST) | Keynote speech
Juan Carlos Muñoz, Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Chile
14:20 – 15:05 (BST) | Panel: Championing walking and cycling’s role in meeting climate goals at the local, national and international levels
This session will discuss what cities, countries and international/transnational bodies are doing to ensure walking and cycling play a greater role in decarbonising transport and mitigating climate change.
Moderator: Bronwen Thornton, CEO Walk21
Panellists:
- Angie Palacios, Principal Executive – Gender and urban Mobility, Urban Development Unit at CAF – Development Bank of Latin America (confirmed)
- Frida Pashako, Deputy Mayor of Tirana (confirmed)
- Betelihem Taddesse, City Government, Head of Active Mobility at AATB, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (confirmed)
15:05 – 15:30 (BST) | Short re-cap of PATH activities in 2024 to date and a preview of upcoming PATH outputs and activities
- PATH active travel NDC template and guidance
- PATH Dashboard that visualises the report “National Walking and Cycling Policies in all 197 UNFCCC Countries”
- PATH walking and cycling regional fact sheets
- Preview of case studies that illustrate actions and approaches
- Plans for COP29 PATH campaign and activities and how PATH partners and supporters can contribute
15:30 – 15:40 (BST) | Break
15:40 – 16:25 (BST) | News from the PATH Community
Short presentations by a selection of PATH partners and supporters on current initiatives that advance walking and/or cycling to help reach the climate goals and deliver health benefits
- Brazilian National Strategy for the Promotion of Mobility by Bicycle: Ana Carboni, União de Ciclistas do Brasil
- Creating opportunities for more Canadians to be connected: Brenden Blotnicky, Trans Canada Trail
- AI & Me: Empowering Youth for Safer Roads: Shanna Lucchesi, International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP)
- Cycle for Better Health: Daniela Gutierrez, BYCS
- Get Cork Walking: Alison Chambers, Cork Sports Partnership
- Lobbying for the National Bicycle Act in Nepal: Tara Lal Shrestha, Cycle Culture Community Nepal
- Bicycles for Resilience and Wellbeing: Nixon Ouku, World Bicycle Relief
- Publication of the UCI Bike City Pathway: Isabella Burczak, Union Cycliste Internationale
16:25 – 16:30 (BST) | Summing up closing remarks
