The Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) is important for many reasons -- for tracking and reporting the impact of NAMAs on GHG emissions, sustainable development, and poverty reduction; to ensure transparency and credibility; and to track accountability of support. Although some aspects of MRV will be common across all sectors, each sector also has its own specific complexities. In this context, the LECB Programme is holding a series of webinars to deep dive into the sector specifics. According to the GIZ handbook, Navigating Transport NAMAs, estimating the mitigation impact of transport policies and measures can be quite difficult compared to other energy-consuming sectors. The reasons for this are, on one hand, the lack of (solid) evaluation data of implemented transport policies and, on the other hand, the complexity of the transport sector as a system. This complexity can be explained for example by a high number and diversity of mobile sources which are subject to millions of individual decisions, the high number of stakeholders involved and the technical challenges related to energy efficiency and alternative fuels. In this 60-minute webinar introduces participants to the lessons learned from the GIZ TRANSfer project, which is being implemented in Colombia, Indonesia, and South Africa, as well as the experience in Colombia and Mexico. Speakers: Jonas Bleckmann is a German environmental economist with a diploma from the University of Mainz and the University of Paris X Nanterre La Défense. He joined GIZ in 2009 working on energy, technology transfer and the CDM. He then worked for GIZ in Morocco on climate change policy advice. Since 2012, he has been working for the TRANSfer project and focuses on the international climate negotiations and the topic of climate finance for sustainable transport. Jonas contributes to TRANSfer's handbook "Navigating Transport NAMAs". He has working experience with the European Delegation in Morocco, the World Resources Institute and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Carlosfelipe Pardo is a Colombian psychologist with an MSc in Contemporary Urbanism from the London School of Economics. He has worked on transportation issues from the organizational, advocacy and policy perspectives, with several projects in his country and abroad. He worked with a foundation in Bogotá as mobility coordinator in 2002-2004. During 2005-2009, he coordinated the GTZ Sustainable Urban Transport Project in Asia and Latin America (www.sutp.org) and was later ITDP Country Director for Colombia. He has taken part in the development of documents and more than 50 training courses on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Travel Demand Management (TDM) non-motorised transport (NMT), sustainable transport and public awareness in China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, and elsewhere around the world. He wrote two chapters for the Bus Rapid Transit Planning Guide, and a module and training document on public awareness and behavioral change for GTZ. He has edited various documents on gender and urban transport, social aspects of transport, induced travel, Travel demand management, and a 250 page handbook on Cycling-inclusive policy development. He has been the manager or coordinator of various international projects on sustainable transport including GIZ TRANSfer where he is in charge of the Colombian component of the project. He is the Executive Director of Despacio.

• published: 02 Jul 2014
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