This theme provided an opportunity to reflect on the unique assets of the Committee, highlighting its value added and underlining its future potential in curbing greenhouse gas emissions trends from inland transport in a disaster-hit global economy due to the impacts of climate change regionally and globally.

Preliminary Programme (PDF version)

8.30 - 10 a.m.  Welcome Coffee (Salle XIX)

10 – 10.20 a.m. Opening statements and welcome speeches

Statements from:

• H.E. Ms. Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary, UNECE
• H.E. Mr. Junhua Li, Under-Secretary-General, UN DESA
• Mr. Yuwei Li, Director, Sustainable Transport Division, UNECE

Award Presentation for 75 years partnership with UNECE

Mr. Umberto De Pretto, Secretary General, International Road Transport Union (IRU)

10.20 – 11 a.m. Keynote speeches

From member States from around the world

• H.E. Mr. Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, United States of America
• H.E. Mr. Andreas Carlson, Minister for Infrastructure of Sweden [Presidency of the Council of the European Union]
• Hon. General (Dr.) V.K. Singh, Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways of India

From the United Nations family

• H.E. Mr. Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization

11 – 11.30 a.m. Coffee break

Salle XIX

11.30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Panel I: Critical partnerships and leaving no-one behind in the climate battle: global challenges and winning formulas for net-zero leaders

MODERATOR: Mr. Young Tae Kim, Secretary General, International Transport Forum (ITF)

Speakers

• H.E. Mr. Rabie El Majidi, Minister of Transport and Logistics of Tunisia
• Hon. Mr. Felix Tapiwa Mhona, Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development of Zimbabwe
• H.E. Mr. Arzybek Kozhoshev, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Energy and Infrastructure, Eurasian Economic Commission

Expert panel views from transport leaders beyond the Government sector

• Mr. Anouar Benazzouz, President, International Road Federation (IRF)

Scheduled high-level interventions from the membership and partners

• H.E. Ambassador Lazăr Comănescu, Secretary General, Black Sea Econ. Cooperation Organization
• Mr. Mirosław Antonowicz, Chairman of OSJD Committee
• Mr. Jan Hoffmann, Head, Trade Logistics Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD
• Mr. Steve Phillips, Secretary General, Conference of European Directors of Roads
• Mr. Ralf Ernst, OSCE Deputy Co-ordinator for Economic and Environmental Activities

1 – 1.45 p.m. High-level Side event on the ITC Forum for Road Safety (Salle XIX)

See the page dedicated to the High-level Side event

1.45 – 3 p.m. Lunch break

Delegates Lunch
(Courtesy: Swiss Federal Roads Office)

VIP lunch
(by invitation only – Courtesy: CITA)

3 – 4.15 p.m. Panel II: Bridging regulators and innovators to bring to scale critical technologies supporting climate change mitigation actions

MODERATOR: Mr. Antonio Erario, Chair of ITC World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations

Speakers

• H.E. Mr. Razzaq Ojaimi, Minister of Transport of Iraq

Expert panel views from transport leaders beyond the Government sector

• Mr. Umberto De Pretto, Secretary General, International Road Transport Union (IRU)
• Mr. Gerhard Müller, President, International Motor Vehicle Inspection Committee (CITA)

Scheduled high-level interventions from the membership and partners

• Mr. Dmitry Zverev, State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation
• Mr. Siarhei Dubina, Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications of Belarus
• Mr. Javad Hedayati Nikkhan, Director General for Department of Transit and International Transport of Iran
• Mr. Kenji Sato, Director of International Policy Planning Division, Road Transport Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan
• Mr. Richard Damm, President Kraftfahrt Bundesamt, Germany
• Mr. Christoph Nolte, Executive Vice President, Dekra SE

4.15 – 4.50 p.m. Coffee break & launch of DEKRA demo

See the page dedicated to the side event: "demonstration on the detection of manipulations of vehicle emission after-treatment systems"

4.50 – 5.50 p.m. Panel III: A bet we can’t afford to lose: challenges and opportunities in the nexus of international financial and regulatory support for climate action

MODERATOR: Ms. Els De Wit, Chair of ITC Working Party on Transport Trends & Economics

Speakers

• H.E. Mr. Anthony Derjacques, Minister for Transport of Seychelles
• H.E. Mr. Jérôme Bonnafont, Permanent Representative of France to the UN in Geneva
• H.E. Mrs. Yevhenia Filipenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN

Expert panel views from transport leaders beyond the Government sector

• Mr. Kris Peeters, Vice-President, European Investment Bank

Scheduled high-level interventions from the membership and partners

• Mr. Gennady Bessonov, Secretary General, Coordinating Council on Trans-Siberian Transportation (CCTT)
• Mr. Pranab Kumar Das, Director for Compliance and Facilitation, World Customs Organization
• Mr. Christian Chavanel, Technical Director, UIC

5.50 – 5.55 p.m. Endorsement of the Ministerial Declaration “Harnessing the full potential of inland transport solutions in the global fight against climate change”

See here the Ministerial Declaration

5.55 – 6 p.m. Closing remarks

Closing remarks by Ms. Hannie Meesters, ITC Chair.

6 – 8 p.m. Evening Reception

Courtesy: DEKRA