Regional Transportation Policy Collaboration

Description

The transportation sector is one of the largest sources of global GHG emissions. State and non-state actors working at various levels in North America and Europe have recently been strengthening collaboration on reducing transportation-related emissions. With some of these actors connected through transnational emissions trading, the need to learn from one another and to be able to respond to changing jurisdictional situations has never been more pressing and more promising. This session will bring together government leaders, policy researchers, and aspiring fast-follower governments from North America and Europe to identify more ways to increase climate ambition and improve implementation. Topics will include cap and trade, low-carbon fuel standards, zero emission vehicle standards, and renewable portfolio standards. The session will leverage existing UC Davis collaborations, including with Pacific Coast Collaborative jurisdictions, the International EV Policy Council, the Global Fuel Economy Initiative, and the Joint Clean Climate Transport Research Partnership.

Organizing Partners

Agenda (PDF)

Regional Collaboration

This session will explore the ways in which jurisdictions are collaborating regionally to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, including Colorado and other Rocky Mountain states and Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states via the Transportation and Climate Initiative; and, West Coast states, major cities, and British Columbia in the Pacific Coast Collaborative.

Vicki Arroyo (Moderator)
Georgetown Climate Center

Rob Klee
Commissioner
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

Taryn Finnessey
Senior Climate Change Specialist
State of Colorado

Lynn Peterson
Metro Council President-Elect
Portland, OR

Alice Reynolds
Senior Advisor to Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. for
Climate, the Environment, and Energy