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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 below and view the presentations.
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
