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40 minOpening Session: Enhancing Ambitions and Actions in the Transport Sector The opening session will provide an opportunity for governments, international organisations and the private sector to share their high level decarbonising transport plans, tools, existing initiatives and the way forward.Format: High Level Panel DiscussionModerator: Peter Campbell, Financial TimesSpeakersJohan Rockström, Professor and Joint Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (virtual)Gloria Hutt, Minister, Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, Chile (virtual)Bernadette Kelly, Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport, United KingdomYoung Tae Kim, Secretary General, ITFIgnacio S. Galán, Chairman and CEO, IberdrolaWarren East, CEO, Rolls Royce35 minSession 1: Unlocking the Transition to Zero Emission MobilityThis session focuses on the mobility system outside of the Global North and Western Europe specifically, where two and three wheelers, as well as public transport, play a significant part in the mobility system. Understanding that mobility and transport priorities are different in different parts of the world is key to ensuring a swift and just transition globally.Format: Panel Discussion Moderator: Heather Thompson, CEO, ITDPSpeakersHanna Zdanowska, Mayor of Lodz, PolandMohamed Mezghani, Secretary General, UITPNaveen Munjal, Managing Director, Hero ElectricJosh Whale, Founder and CEO, AmpersandRicardo Repenning, Co-founder and CTO, Reborn Electric Motors35 minSession 2: The Transition to Greater Transport Resilience and COVID-19 RecoveryThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of the sector in ensuring transport connectivity, as well as the need to improve the resiliency of the sector to prepare for future disruptions due to climate change, natural disasters, or technology advancement. COVID-19 recovery measures could then be integrated into regional, national or local transport, infrastructure and climate change strategies to support greater resiliency and sustainability in land, maritime and aviation transport.Format: Panel Discussion Moderator: Stientje van Veldhoven, Vice President and Regional Director for Europe, WRISpeakersJuan Carlos Salazar, Secretary General, ICAO (virtual)Francois Davenne, Director General, UICBronwen Thornton, CEO, Walk21Regina Asariotis, Chief, Policy and Legislation Section, UNCTAD (virtual)Eszter Tóth-Weedon, Director, Smart Freight Centre35 minSession 3: The Just Transition to Transport Equity and EqualityThe race to decarbonise the transport sector needs to be coupled with an inclusive and just transition and not leave anyone behind. A just transition for workers in the existing transport sector and of the future will need to receive decent pay, conditions and employment stability. Transport workers would also need to have the knowledge, skills and experience to design and staff transport services of the future. This session will focus on existing standards and initiatives that will ensure a just transport transition as the sector continues to evolve.Format: Panel Discussion Moderator: Sheila Watson, Deputy Director, FIA Foundation SpeakersSteve Cotton, General Secretary, International Transport Workers FederationGuy Platten, Secretary General, International Chamber of ShippingCecile Texier, Sustainability & CSR Vice President, AlstomGustavo Rinaldi, Environmental Impact Director, Ministry of Transport, Argentina20 minClosing Session: Moving Forward to COP27The closing session will identify the way forward to COP27 and the key priority actions required to decarbonise the transport sector. High level champion Gonzalo Muñoz will launch the Transition Playbook for Electromobility. Synergies across land, maritime and aviation transport will also be highlighted.Format: Fire-side chat Moderator: Maruxa Cardama, Secretary General, SLOCAT SpeakersDagmawit Moges Bekele, Minister, Ministry of Transport, Ethiopia (virtual)Larissa Amorim, Sustainability Undersecretary, Ministry of Infrastructure, BrazilMohamed Hegazy, Director, Transport for Cairo L.L.P. (virtual)Gonzalo Muñoz, High Level ChampionModerator - Closing remarks (2 min)