Last week, as an integral part of the Intergovernmental 13th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia, LISD, IRENA, WCRE and EUROSOLAR with UNCRD co-organized the live online post-event workshop on Intelligent Renewable Infrastructures for Sustainable Transport.

After a short welcome by Prof. Peter Droege, Director of LISD and President of EUROSOLAR e.V., C.R.C. Mohanty, Environment Programme Coordinator, United Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD) gave an introduction and overview of the workshop. He pointed out that transport issues are becoming more and more complex with mounting preservance of climate change, increasing frequency and magnitude of natural disasters, population growth and the Covis-19 pandemic.

In the following presentation, Prof. Droege showed the capacity and technology innovation for Asia’s leaders, policymakers and system planners in the field of transport and renewable energy infrastructure. He took a look at the drivers, potentials and developments in the move towards sustainable mobility and how it benefits the sustainability of transport. Afterwards, Arina Anisie and Gayathri Prakash, IRENA explained the Global experience and prospects for smart charging worldwide and with a focus on East Asia. As electric vehicles hold the key to unleash synergies between clean transport and low-carbon electricity, future transport must be increasingly electrified, future power systems must make maximum use of variable renewable energy sources, they underlined. Smart charging for EVs minimises their load impact and unlocks the flexibility to use more solar and wind power.