Roadmap to Zero: Accelerate. Adopt. Deploy.

11 November 2025 at 14:00–15:00 GMT-3
Thematic Hub (Blue Zone)

This high-level session highlights breakthrough solutions for zero-emission and intermodal transport, highlighting global efforts to accelerate decarbonization across road, rail and multimodal systems. The session will emphasize international collaboration, policy commitments, and innovative initiatives aligned with the vision of just, efficient and resilient transport. A major announcement will be made regarding Brazil’s first electric-truck corridor and the Low-Carbon Rail Challenge. There will also be deliberations on implementing outputs under the Plans to Accelerate Solutions on Accelerating Zero-and-Low Emission Technologies in Hard to Abate Sectors, the Road Transport Breakthrough along with actions outlined in the SLOCAT Manifesto for intermodal, low-carbon, efficient and resilient freight transport and logistics.

Organizers: CALSTART / Drive to Zero, SLOCAT Partnership, Road Transport Breakthrough (Breakthrough Agenda), Accelerating to Zero Coalition, ICCT, UIC, Smart Freight Center (SFC), C40, Volkswagen Truck & Bus, WRI Brazil, WBCSD, and the Ministries of Transport of Colombia and Brazil

Powered by Renewables: Zero-Emission Freight Corridors for a Global Transition

14 November 1600-1700 GMT-3 
Hangar Convention Center, We Mean Business Pavilion (blue zone) Auditorium

Decarbonizing trucking and urban freight is essential to meeting national and global climate goals. Freight and urban delivery corridors—critical arteries of trade, logistics, and daily life—offer powerful opportunities to accelerate this transition by aligning infrastructure, finance, and policy along shared routes.

The EV100+, the Global Green Road Corridors (GGRC) initiative and the Zero Emission Vehicle Emerging Markets Initiative (ZEV-EMI) bring together governments, industry leaders, and financiers from over ten countries to design and implement real-world zero-emission freight corridors, demonstrating how long-haul and urban transport can be powered by clean, renewable energy. These corridors serve as living laboratories for implementation, where clean energy, logistics planning, and public-private finance converge to reduce fossil fuel dependence, strengthen energy security, and unlock new economic opportunities. Together, these initiatives are turning ambition into action—linking urban and regional systems to make electric, renewable-powered transport the new normal by 2030.

This session will explore innovative finance and implementation models for zero-emission freight corridors and cities, including total cost of ownership (TCO) insights and blended-finance approaches. It will highlight progress from Mexico and discuss the potential to decarbonize Australia’s Hume Highway, a flagship opportunity to demonstrate scalable, renewable-powered freight and urban logistics transformation.

This event will feature announcements on:

• Mexico Collective action & investment partnership to scale light and heavy-duty vehicles on the northern Mexico corridor and in selected cities
• The Hume Highway, Australia’s first Global Green Road Corridor (GGRC), with early deployments planned for COP31 under the Sydney–Melbourne Powered by Renewables Truck Corridor
• How corridors leverage renewable energy, infrastructure, and policy alignment to accelerate zero-emission freight

Organizers: CALSTART/Drive to Zero, the Climate Group, WBCSD