Welcome to Transport and Climate Change Week 2025

From 22 to 26 September 2025, we created a space for conducting a review of past activities and for facilitating future accountability as a community. By showcasing our achievements, we emphasized positive outcomes that inspire collective momentum and drive meaningful transformation.

Programme overview

Arrival Day

10:00 AM
Fewer Resources, Stronger Alliances: Transport Cooperation in Tough Fiscal Times
Welcoming & Opening Remarks

Understanding & Mapping the System

08:00 AM
Country Journeys Towards Effective Vehicle Regulations
Stories of Change

Developing vehicle regulations for vehicle efficiency and electrification is a journey that requires strong partnerships, technical expertise, and sustained capacity building. This session will showcase experiences from India, Kenya, and Thailand, highlighting how governments, technical experts, and other stakeholders have worked together to develop and implement effective regulations. Speakers will share key steps, milestones, challenges, and capacity-building approaches from their respective country journeys.
The session will offer practical lessons and insights that participants can adapt to advance vehicle efficiency and electrification policies in their own countries.

10:00 AM
Connecting Cities, Partners and Finance for Climate-Resilient Urban Mobility
Eastern EU & The Balkans Experience

This workshop will bring together representatives of national and local authorities, regional organisations, development partners and financial institutions to exchange experiences and showcase practical solutions for advancing climate-resilient urban mobility in the Western Balkans. Building on the Declaration for Green Mobility for the Western Balkan Countries and Observing Participants and the Policy Framework and Roadmap for Integrated Sustainable Urban Mobility for the Western Balkans, the workshop will present complementary initiatives, demonstrate pilot actions, promote regional cooperation, and explore opportunities for scaling up investments in sustainable and climate-resilient urban mobility.

01:30 PM
Spotlight on Public Transport Projects
Projects Perspective
03:30 PM
E-Solutions for Maritime Transport: Be Inspired by Grenada and Colombia
Fluvial Perspective
04:15 PM
Defossilising Aviation & Shipping: the Role of Methanol for E-Fuel Production
PtX Side Event

Spotlighting Proven Transformation Strategies

08:00 AM
Overcoming the Tension Between the Energy Crisis and Fuel Costs: Towards Sustainable Transport
10:00 AM
Accelerating Integration through Corridor Development
Side Event

The electrification of heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) is entering a new phase. While early pilot projects have demonstrated the technical feasibility of electric trucks in various applications, the next challenge is enabling large-scale deployment in the future.

Unlike passenger vehicles, electric heavy-duty vehicles introduce complex interactions between vehicle technologies, charging infrastructure, electricity systems, logistics operations and policy frameworks. Large-scale adoption will require coordinated planning across multiple sectors, including transport, energy, industry and finance.

Questions around charging infrastructure deployment, grid readiness, vehicle technology development, business models and supportive policies are becoming increasingly critical. Addressing these challenges requires moving beyond individual pilots towards an integrated approach that considers the entire ecosystem surrounding electric HDVs.

This session will bring together partners to discuss how to prepare for the next stage of electric heavy-duty vehicle deployment and how governments, industry and partners can coordinate actions to enable a successful transition. “

01:30 PM
Steering Africa’s Transport Future: Critical Turning Points, Accelerating E-Mobility, and Scaling Innovation
Africa Regional Perspective
03:30 PM
Beyond Awareness: Building Partnerships for Gender-Responsive Transport
Global Alliance for Feminist Transport Side Event

Symposium Day: Visualising Our Goals

08:00 AM
Driving the Transition: Scaling Up Climate-Friendly Reefer Transport Through Cooperation
Side Event
10:00 AM
Connecting Minds, Creating Momentum
Asia Regional Perspective
01:30 PM
Shared Data, Shared Action: Building Trust through Open Transport Data
Transport Data Commons (TDC) Side Event
03:30 PM
Public Transport Doesn’t Pay for Itself: Exploring Financing Models for Latin America
Latin America Regional Perspective

Enhancing Accountability

08:00 AM
Accelerating Zero-Emission Trucks: From Vehicle Policies to Charging Infrastructure
Stories of Change
10:00 AM
Challenges & Opportunities: Looking Ahead to the Next Decade

Speakers

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