The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the world’s leading environmental authority. It sets the environmental agenda at the global level, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development in the United Nations system and acts as a strong advocate for the environment. The objective of its agents is to work collaboratively to provide leadership and encourage joint work in caring for the environment, inspiring, informing and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
UNEP’s Global Electric Mobility Program supports more than 50 low- and middle-income countries with the switch from fossil fuels to electric vehicles. The transport sector is currently almost completely dependent on fossil fuels, but this does not necessarily have to be the case.
In the last 20 years, electric vehicles have undergone major technological developments that have not only lowered their costs, but also reduced their environmental footprint and increased utility. Likewise, public transport and shared mobility are key ingredients to achieve efficient transport.
At the regional level, UNEP supports this transformation through the Center for Sustainable Mobility (CMS), establishing four support and investment platforms to create communities of practice and markets for electric mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean (CMS). At the global level, the Global Electric Mobility Program advocates for goals and policies in favor of electromobility and, together with the International Energy Agency (IEA), has established four global working groups to provide advice to policy-making and support national projects.
One of the main actors is his executive assistant, Ph.D Ing. Luis Felipe Quirama Londoño, who in the company of the executive director of CMS, Mgtr. Econ. Sebastián Galarza are present at this International Seminar Workshop providing information, collaboration and technical support, above all exchanging experiences.
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For almost 20 years, the Mario Molina Center has promoted the development of technologies and public policies that provide a solid foundation for the decarbonization of transport in Latin America and the Caribbean. In their firm commitment to the decarbonization of our region, they have wanted to evolve, deepen and focus this purpose even more with the Center for Sustainable Mobility (Centro de Movilidad Sostenible(CMS)), an NGO that was born under the umbrella of the Mario Molina Center.
The CMS acts with total independence and autonomy to generate links, networks and knowledge with all sectors of the Society, being a promoter of research and development in technologies and public policies focused on achieving the decarbonization of our transport. The Mario Molina Center continues to be a benchmark in the management of technological projects in transport and studies of air pollution and climate change.