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Resilient Cities
April Update
30 April 2015
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Congress program now
available online
Check out
our diverse congress program, with practical and theoretical
sessions, several new congress elements, special urban forums and a
strong finance track to attract diverse participants, enhance learning and
inspire local action! |
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Resilient Cities 2015
special theme: Finance
This year,
Resilient Cities will take a critical look at emerging approaches for
financing resilience. Throughout the congress, cities, experts and
practitioners can follow a finance track of sessions
exploring innovative examples and new financing methods from donors,
investors and pioneering cities.The finance track will include a special Finance Forum organized in cooperation with Agence Française de Développement (ADF) on June 9th. |
 A Reality Check Workshop featuring the City of Copenhagen at Resilient Cities 2012 |
"Cities in Focus" sessions
Resilient Cities 2015 will feature four city case-studies with
two Reality Check Workshops (Tshwane, South Africa and Pemba/Quelimane,
Mozambique) and one in-depth session on post-disaster resilience-building in
New York City.These "Cities in Focus" sessions will offer a close look into specific, but transferable climate change adaptation and urban resilience strategies and allow cities to learn from each other's responses to common challenges. |
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Urban Food Forum @ Resilient Cities
A special
Urban Food Forum organized by the RUAF Foundation will be hosted at
Resilient Cities on June 10th. The Food Forum will focus on innovative
practices, strategies and policies for resilient city and
city-region food systems and will discuss the role of small and medium
enterprises in sustainable urban food system development. |
 @ 2013 Sayamon Saiyot |
Photo Contest winner announced!
Congratulations to Sayamon Saiyot, winner
of the Resilient Cities 2015 Photo Contest! As a result Sayamon won a free
entry to the Resilient Cities 2015 congress and her photo is
featured in a special section on our website and on our CityTalk
blog. Thank you again to everyone who’s participated at the photo contest! We were pleased to receive a large number of interesting photographs, which we’ve enjoyed reviewing. Check out our honorable mentions. |
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Resilient Cities 2015
Co-Patrons
We are privileged
to announce Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, together with Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary
of the United Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC), as Co-Patrons of Resilient Cities 2015! |
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Last chance to showcase your work at the
congress!
Limited exhibition space is still available at our venue for
your city, organization or business to present your initiatives and
interact directly with experts and practitioners.Book with us soon! Write to resilient.cities@iclei.org |
Please
note that the 3rd Open European Day has been postponed to 2016. Planning for
the organization for the Open European Day 2016 will soon start and we will
of course keep you updated regarding its development! |
