Venue: "Golden Pond” Meeting Room, Taj Samudra Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka
How to join: Please send email to est@uncrd.or.jp with subject "Green Freight Day, 18 Nov"

Programme:

Time	Provisional Programme	Speaker/Panel	Affiliation/Title
1:00-1:30	Registration
Session I: Global and Regional Developments in Green Freight: Roles and Opportunities for Asia
1:30-1:45	Welcome and Opening Remarks	Mr. Robert Earley	Transport Program Manager, Clean Air Asia
		Mr. CRC Mohanty	Environment Programme Coordinator, United Nations Centre for Regional Development
1:45-2:00	Keynote Speech	Mr. Jim Blubaugh	Director of International Programs, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency
2:00-2:50	Panel Discussion:Policy, Capacity Building and Implementation for Green Freight in Asia Facilitator: Robert Earley, Clean Air Asia	Ms. Naeeda Crishna	Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Operations Centre, ADB
		Mr. Parthaa Bosu	Clean Air Asia
		Policy Representative from Sri Lanka (tbc)
		Mr. Buddy Polovick	US Environmental Protection Agency
		Mr. Roland Haas	GIZ (tbc)
2:50-3:20	Facilitated Group Activity: Recognizing Green Freight Efforts on Green Freight in Asia – An Asian Development Bank Initiative	Mr. Robert Earley	Clean Air Asia and Consultant, ADB
		Mr. Sudhir Gota	Consultant, ADB
Session II: Partnership Building for Greener Freight
3:45-3:50	Introduction to Session II	Mr. Parthaa Bosu	India Director, Clean Air Asia
3:55-4:15	Keynote Speech Introducing the Global Logistics Emissions Council and harmonized methodologies for calculating intermodal freight emissions	Ms. Sophie Punte	Executive Director, Smart Freight Centre
4:15-4:30	Green Freight labels for business in Asia	Mr. Stephan Schablinski	Executive Director, Green Freight Asia (tbc)
4:30-5:15	Panel Discussion: Greener shippers, Greener Carriers: How can communication between shippers and carriers help to incentivize greener freight in Asia?	Ms. Sophie Punte	Smart Freight Centre
		Mr. Stephan Schablinski	Green Freight Asia
		Selected Global and Regional Shippers and Carriers
5:15-5:30	Open Discussion and Conclusions