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|Secretariat=Seraphine Haeussling, CCAC Secretariat, UNEP Paris, Phone:+33 144377637, E-mail: seraphine.haeussling@un.org
 
|Organisational structure=Global Green Freight Action Plan – The Steering group consists of representatives from: Canada, USA, The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Smart Freight Centre, Clean Air Asia, UNEP, the World Bank
 
|Organisational structure=Global Green Freight Action Plan – The Steering group consists of representatives from: Canada, USA, The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Smart Freight Centre, Clean Air Asia, UNEP, the World Bank
 
|Geographical coverage=Global
 
|Geographical coverage=Global

Revision as of 14:33, 22 January 2018

General

Name of initiative CCAC: Global Green Freight Action Plan
LPAA initiative Yes
NAZCA Initiative No
Website address http://www.globalgreengreight.org
Related initiatives
Starting year 2014
End year
Secretariat Seraphine Haeussling, CCAC Secretariat, UNEP Paris, Phone:+33 144377637, E-mail: seraphine.haeussling@un.org
Organisational structure Global Green Freight Action Plan – The Steering group consists of representatives from: Canada, USA, The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Smart Freight Centre, Clean Air Asia, UNEP, the World Bank
Geographical coverage Global
Name of lead organisation UNEP Paris
Type of lead organisation Other intergovernmental organization
Location/Nationality of lead organisation France

Description

Description Green freight programs can help the freight sector reduce its contribution to climate change and air pollution by encouraging the adoption of more efficient and cleaner technologies and practices. They can help companies retrofit existing vehicles with technologies and measures to reduce fuel consumption (such as idle reduction technologies, aerodynamic retrofits, and rolling resistance improvements) as well as exhaust emission retrofits such as diesel particulate filters to reduce black carbon. These programs also help expedite the acquisition of new, more fuel efficient vehicles, all of which reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing vehicles.
Objectives The goal of the Global Green Freight Action Plan is to enhance the environmental and energy efficiency of goods movement in ways that significantly reduce the climate, health, energy, and cost impacts of freight transport around the world.

Reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, black carbon and other pollutants in the freight sector by 2025. Our estimates are that green freight programs can result in almost 100 MMT annually if implemented by G20 nations.

Targeting fuel savings and cost reduction for business. Green freight programs can result in 5-10% efficiency gains in targeted fleets.

Activities Capacity building:
• The initiative has conducted four regional workshops for Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America on green freight programs that aimed to capacitate stakeholders, determine areas of regional collaboration, and support commitments under the GGFAP. 

Knowledge development: The following resources have been completed by the initiative:

• Freight assessment blueprint: practical guide for evaluating freight transportation in support of national green freight programs20.
• Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) Framework for Logistics Emissions Methodologies: one universal and transparent way of calculating logistics emissions across the global multi-modal supply chain.
• Freight Assessment for Brazil and Mexico
• Vietnam Green Freight Paper
• Black Carbon Methodology for the Logistics Sector as supplement to the GLEC Framework.

Other relevant resources disseminated by the Initiative includes:

• EPA SmartWay Training: capacity-building training to design, build and implement a Green Freight Program
• EPA Technology Verification Training: capacity-building training to design, build and implement a Tech Verification Program.

Policy-making and implementation:

• The first Green Freight Strategy in Africa has been launched under the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority at the 42nd Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Northern Corridor on 16 January 2017.

Monitoring and reporting:

• A steering group made up of volunteer partners of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (Canada, United States, Clean Air Asia, International Council on Clean Transportation, Smart Freight Centre) tracks actions and reports progress annually.
• Indicators include: number of additional actions, number of additional stakeholders engaged and countries committing to set up green freight programs, total amount of additional funding mobilized.
One or two success stories achieved With support from the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority (NCTTCA) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is developing its five year (2017-2021) Green Freight Programme which is aimed at supporting a number of initiatives intended to reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions in the Northern Corridor Member States (Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda). The Green Freight Programme is a launching pad of a phased implementation of a holistic Sustainable Freight Transport Strategy which entails, in particular, sustainable transport policies, planning strategies and investment decisions that effectively balance the economic, environmental and social objectives. The Sustainable Freight Transport Strategy will be developed by the NCTTCA with support from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Monitoring and Impacts

Function of initiative Capacity building, Technical dialogue
Activity of initiative Training and education, Knowledge dissemination and exchange
Indicators
Goals
Comments on indicators and goals
How will goals be achieved
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals
Progress towards the goals The initiative has launched the online platform www.globalgreenfreight.org which aims to cultivate an active online community and resource that will be a primary resource in the freight sector. This online platform includes essential information to assist countries in designing and improving green freight programs (e.g., guidance documents, technical documentation on multiple technologies and operational strategies to reduce freight emissions, relevant events).

The initiative also participated and presented the Action Plan at a regional Workshop on Sustainable Freight Transport and Finance organized United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Nairobi, Kenya in March 2016, with the objective of assisting the Northern Corridor of Africa in developing a green freight program. The initiative also presented and participated at the Green Freight Day at the Better Air Quality Conference organized by Clean Air Asia in Busan, South Korea in August 2016, and at the ADB Transport Forum in Manila, Philippines in September 2016. The initiative will continue to organize two more regional workshops in, Europe and Latin America in 2016 and 2017 to explore the status and opportunities for development and harmonization of regional green freight programs. New capacity building training materials were created by US EPA SmartWay to train countries to develop Technology Verification programs. This new content supplements EPA’s Green Freight program development training and will be used in more workshops in 2017.

How are you tracking progress of your initiative
Available reporting

Participants

Participants Number Names
Members 0  
Companies 0
Business organisations 0
Research and educational organisations 0
Non-governmental organisations 0
National states 0
Governmental actors 0
Regional / state / county actors 0
City / municipal actors 0
Intergovernmental organisations 0
Financial Institutions 0
Faith based organisations 0
Other members 0
Supporting partners 0
Number of members in the years
2018
57
Have only national states as participators No


Theme

Transport Agriculture Forestry Business Financial institutions Buildings Industry Waste Cities and subnational governments Short Term Pollutants International maritime transport Energy Supply Fluorinated gases Energy efficiency Renewable energy Supply chain emission reductions Adaptation Other Resilience Innovation Energy Access and Efficiency Private Finance
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Not only have national states as participators