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Special Congress
Edition
30 May 2015
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Congress program available
online
Our program
booklet, filled with exciting new sessions and diverse topics, is now
available on our website to download. For more detailed information on the
content of individual sessions, including speakers and formats, check out our
Session Description booklet. |
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Congress Highlights:
Themes to follow at Resilient Cities 2015
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Financing resilience: A
Finance Forum exploring how cities, practitioners, and financial institutions
are reinventing their approaches to increase the flow of resources for urban
resilience is organized on the 2nd day. Read more.
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Resilient urban food systems: An
Urban Food Forum, on new approaches to city/city-region food systems
featuring several cities from the global south is organized on the 3rd day. Read more.
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Disaster risk
reduction: Learn from cities’ experiences on
integrating DRR into urban planning (Sessions: B3, D2, E1, H3)
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Urban research: Gain
insights on how to bridge research, practice and policy making (Sessions: A5,
B1, G1)
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Resilient
Infrastructure: Learn from cities’
investments in and planning approaches to climate resilient infrastructures
(Sessions: A3, C2, D1, E3, F2)
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Standardizing city
data: Explore the value of standardized global city indicators and
the application of the new ISO 37120 standard on sustainable cities (A1, F3)
Check out our new
congress elements!
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Two trainings organized
by ICLEI Canada: “Cities Master Class” (D1) and “A compendium of adaptation
options” (H2);
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A Knowledge Café
Workshop featuring the city of Ekurhuleni, South Africa (A5);
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A “Fail Forward” session
governed by the Chatham House Rule (D4); and
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An interactive “talk
show” panel discussion featuring urban researchers, practitioners
and policy makers (G1)
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And some emerging discussions on Public
Health (E4) and Communicating Resilience (A4, D3)
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Keynote speakers
We are
pleased to announce our keynote speakers: Cynthia Rosenzweig Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Climate Impacts Group at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Co-Director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network at Columbia University in New York presenting:
Cities as first responders to climate change: A first look at
the Second Assessment Report (ARC3-2) of the Urban Climate Change Research
Network
Matthew Lynch Vice President of the Global Partnerships & Initiatives at the World Council on City Data in Toronto, Canada presenting: Standardized indicators for resilient cities: ISO 37120 and the World Council on City Data |
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Cities at the congress
Resilient Cities
will feature representatives from more than 50 cities, including:
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Medellin,
Colombia
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Porto-Novo,
Benin
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Rotterdam,
Netherlands
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Nacala-Porto,
Mozambique
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Trujillo,
Peru
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Reykjavik,
Iceland
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Walvis
Bay, Namibia
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Essen,
Germany
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Seoul
Metropolitan Government
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Cape
Town, South Africa
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Quito,
Ecuador
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Melaka,
Malaysia
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Almada,
Portugal
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Kaohsiung,
Chinese Taipei
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Fort
Lauderdale, USA
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Featured sessions
Agence Française de
Développement (AFD) uses its wide experience in working with cities in the
global North and South to explore the prerequisites (financial, technical and
practical) to integrate climate change into long term planning.How to mobilize planning tools to develop resilient cities (B4) On the first day of the congress, this session will draw from the experiences of three diverse cities (Da Nang, Vietnam, Rouen, France, and Porto-Novo, Benin) in integrating climate change adaptation into urban planning and policies. The session will highlight the utilization of analytical and financial instruments to develop climate change strategies at the city level. What can local financing bring to funding mechanisms for adaptation? (D5) On the second day, AFD will demonstrate the relevance and role of local and national financial institutions’ dedicated funds, as direct or indirect providers to finance municipalities’ climate-resilient investments. The session will be based on the experiences of different local financial institutions from Latin America. |
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Side events and
meetings
In addition to our
exciting 3-day program, there are some interesting side events organized
for participants, including:
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“Cities
as laboratories against the background of climate and digital change”
lecture by Professor Michael Batty on Sunday, June 7th
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A networking event organized by
the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) on June 9th
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