112. The Secretary to the Working Party on Pollution and Energy (GRPE) explained to GRVA that the United Nations had a strategy to decarbonize transport for all modes of transport since the adoption in February 2024 of the Inland Transport Committee Climate (ITC) Change Mitigation Strategy. He added that UNECE would organize a side event together with International Maritime Organization (IMO) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) at the twenty-ninth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Azerbaijan. He presented (GRVA-20-55) considerations on the implementation of the ITC Strategy on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Inland Transport.

113. The Chair of GRVA recalled that he had already approached the Chair of GRPE to explore the possibility of discussing the greenhouse gas emissions reduction potential of Automated Driving Systems.