The Mario Molina Center (CMM)

 

 

CMM of Chile was created in 2004 under the sponsorship of Professor Mario Molina (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995). Since 2009, the Center is a technical partner of UN-Environment in transportation and fuels for Central and South America, where it has had great achievements in implementing policies to improve air quality. In 2012, the CMM was accredited as an R & D Center by CORFO (according to the Chilean law) that promotes collaboration between science and public institutions.With 14 years of experience, currently carries out 11 projects with national and international partners, it is noted that in recent years the Center has expanded its field of research in the electromobility and technological innovation of atmospheric monitoring equipment.

 

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 

 

 

UNEP is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. Its mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

 

CMM hosts webinar series in conjunction with UN Environment. The MOVE community is made up of the ministries of transport, energy and the environment and other stakeholders from Mexico to Chile. MOVE LATAM brings together a high number of public officials and private sector actors in the transport space across Latin America for monthly webinars from a number of different actors involved in the deployment of electric vehicles. 

 

The objective of this webinar is to introduce whats strategies that an operating company can adopt to improve the quality of public transport service, reach new standards of safety, service and efficiency. Shenzhen Bus Group's Head of International Development (Hallie Liao) shared Shenzhen Bus' experience in electrification particularly focused on the operational and infrastructure implications it has had to bus services and the lessons learned from SZBG experience. With the background of a global pandemic - COVID-19 is affecting public transport worldwide, Hallie also shared Shenzhen Bus' experience in combating Covid 19.  

 

 

Sources:  cmmolina.cl 

www.unenvironment.org