Conference “Moving Ahead: Green Mobility for Healthy Cities”

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Welcome

Evelyne Huytebroeck, EGP Committee Member, Member of the Brussels Parliament, Belgium

Linda Meleo, Rome Local Councillor on Urban Mobility, Italy

Towards new mobility in Italy (presentation in Italian)

Anna Donati, Board Member, Green Italia, Italy

Plenary session: Urban planning and mobility: A "people-first" approach

Moderator: Sergi Alegre, Vice Mayor of El Prat de Llobregat, Spain

Speakers:

• Maria Berrini, Director of Milan's Mobility, Environment and Territory Agency (AMAT), Italy (presentation in Italian)
• Bruno De Lille, Member of the Brussels Parliament, former Minister of Mobility, Belgium
• Christophe Najdovski, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France (presentation in French)

Lunch

Plenary session: 1 year after Dieselgate - From Brussels to the local level, how Greens can fight for better air quality

Dieselgate shocked the European public one year ago. After Volkswagen admitted it had cheated NOx emission tests, national and European inquiries showed that most of the cars on EU roads emitted much higher emissions than allowed by European law. Consumers are fooled both ways: they drive much dirtier cars than they thought, and they breathe highly polluted air. Politicians all over Europe promised better and reliable tests, cleaner cars and less pollution. 

But what has changed one year later? The Green MEPs Karima Delli and Bas Eickhout will give an overview of the legislation currently on the table in Brussels: a new design for the Real Driving Emissions tests, a proposal for a European type approval mechanism and the work of the inquiry committee EMIS. Progress is possible, but the car lobby is working hard to make the new rules weak.

Together with Silke Gebel and Monica Oltra Jarque, representatives from the local level, the MEPs want to discuss what would be important to make our cars and the air in our cities cleaner:

• How to improve car emission regulation so that cities can meet EU air quality standards?
• How to build bridges between Green actions at local and EU level to fight for cleaner air?
• How to ensure a match between the local air quality plans and the EU targets, with a special focus on private mobility measures, mainly cars?

Moderator: Francesco Ferrante, Vice-President of the Kyoto Club

Speakers:

• Karima Delli, Green Member of the European Parliament, France
• Bas Eickhout, Green Member of the European Parliament, Netherlands
• Silke Gebel, Member of the Berlin State Parliament, Germany
• Mónica Oltra Jarque, Vice-President of the Valencian Government, Spain (presentation)

Coffee break

Parallel session: Shared mobility in Green Cities

Exploring best practices for the implementation of multimodal transportation, integrating with other ridesharing services.

Moderator: Frédéric Benhaim, Ile de France Councillor, France

Speakers:

• Elena Grandi, Local Councillor, Milan Municipality 1, Italy (presentation in Italian)
• Pierre Meriaux, Grenoble Local Councillor, France (presentation in French)
• Roger Persson, Gävle Local Councillor, Sweden (presentation)

Parallel session: Alternative modes of transport

Moderator: Arnaud Pinxteren, Member of the Brussels Parliament, Belgium 

Speakers:

• Alberto Fiorillo, Head of the Mobility Department, Legambiente, Italy (presentation)
• Huib van Essen, Member of the Committee on Environment, Transport and Sustainable Energy, Parliament of the Province of Utrecht, Netherlands (presentation)
• Rüdiger Maresch, Chairperson of the Committee on Urban Planning and Traffic, Vienna Council, Austria (presentation)

Coffee break

Keynote

Luigi de Magistris, Mayor of Naples, Italy

introduction by Monica Frassoni, EGP Co-Chair

Plenary session: Green strategies to achieve carbon neutral cities

Moderator: Angelo Bonelli, Member of the Executive Committee, Federazione dei Verdi, Italy

Speakers:

• Giuseppe Grezzi, Valencia Local Councillor, Spain (presentation)
• Zeeger Ernsting, GroenLinks Spokesperson on Traffic and Transport, Amsterdam Council, Netherlands (presentation)
• Eivind Trædal, Oslo Local Councillor, Norway (presentation)

Concluding remarks 

Mar Garcia, EGP Secretary General

Cocktail