Transport & Climate Change - European Researchers Act - an ETRA workshop
Date and time
Location
IFSTTAR
14-20 boulevard Newton Cité Descartes Cedex 2 Champs sur Marne, FRANCE 77477Description
Objectives of the workshop
The European Transport Research Alliance – ETRA, as an Organisation encompassing as partners five European Associations with members involved in different aspects and areas of Transport research. The ETRA, recognizing the horizontal nature of the impacts of climate change on the Transport system, is organising this one day Workshop in Paris (on July 6th, 2015) in cooperation with the French Transport research Organisation IFSTTAR, and in parallel to the “Our Common Future under Climate Change - CFCC-2015” Conference[1], also held in Paris from July 7th – 10th 2015.
The aims of our one-day Workshop can be summarized as follows:
- Highlighting some key results of current transport research, related to climate change.
- Advising on the practical steps towards adaptation and mitigation actions in the short to medium term in the field of Transport.
- Recommending the necessary policy actions at European level.
- Providing a concise overview of the research being developed throughout Europe in the field of transport and with respect to climate change issues.
- Identifying needs for future research on transport and climate change adaptation or mitigation issues.
The workshop will cover the whole spectrum of Transport and will focus on presenting research results and solutions that the European research community proposes as regards the role and interactions of the transport system with the climate change phenomenon. It will also focus on how to move from research to implementation in a constrained funding environment and time frame.
Through this workshop, the organisers intend to show the added value that can be accrued from a multidisciplinary approach in tackling our transport problems and the need to adapt any solutions to real societal needs and demands. It will also demonstrate the greater synergies that can be achieved through the collaborative research approach adopted by the ETRA partners on the transport transversal issues and transport related global challenges.
[1]This Conference takes place as a preparatory event to the December COP21 Paris Meeting (the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties of the UN/FCCC ) and is aimed to:
- 1 - Provide state-of-the-art scientific knowledge on climate change, one year after the release of the IPCC AR5: physical basis of climate change, impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, mitigation, storylines and scenarios.
- 2 - Explore a wide range of pathways combining climate change mitigation and adaptation, and sustainable development.
- 3 - Assess the potential for evidence-based solutions to climate change challenges.
- 4 - Contribute to a science-society dialogue.