The second plenary session of Day 3 of the ICLEI World Congress 2015 looked at how to anchor sustainability in the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Yvo de Boer of the Global Green Growth Institute highlighted three key events in 2015: the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa in May; the United Nations Summit to adopt
Post by Abrina Williams Today Mobile Workshop participants at the ICLEI World Congress visited the Sipjaseong energy self-reliant community in the Gangdo area of Seoul, South Korea. This neighborhood community generates approximately 50% of their own energy through the use of photovoltaic solar panels. The village was founded in 1974 by the Korean government for
Representatives of five cities to have received prestigious international sustainability awards took to the stage in Seoul this afternoon to discuss how their progress had been achieved. Morten Kabell of Copenhagen (Denmark), George Ferguson of Bristol (UK), Dejan Crnek of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Johannes van der Merwe of Cape Town (South Africa) and Dagur Eggertsson of
Post by Abrina Williams The sub-plenary ‘Advancing the Resilient City: New developments and directions in urban adaptation and resilience’ began with an overview from ICLEI Resilient Cities Program Manager Laura Kavanaugh, who shared the definitions used by the IPCC and the UN for adaptation and resilience. Adaptation: The adjustment in natural or human systems in
Together with ICLEI President Park Wonsoon (Mayor of Seoul), ICLEI First Vice President James Nxumalo (Mayor of Durban) and ICLEI Secretary General Gino Van Begin, 100 mayors from around the world were onstage at today´s ICLEI World Congress 2015 Opening Plenary to adopt the Seoul Declaration. The Seoul Declaration (ES) is a collaborative document that sets out a
The Opening Plenary of the ICLEI World Congress 2015 began with an address from Jorgen Randers, co-author of the seminal 1972 book The Limits to Growth. In his speech, entitled “2052 – A Global Forecast for the next 40 years”, Randers outlined three trends. First, he suggested that the global population would peak at eight
The Seoul Metropolitan area has around 10 million inhabitants. Providing clean drinking water to all of them is a substantial operation. Not content with achieving this, however, Seoul Metropolitan Government has worked hard to drive innovation into the water purification process. In a mobile workshop attended by a number of World Congress participants, we found
ICLEI’s Global Executive Committee 2015-2018 was unveiled at the opening plenary of the World Congress 2015. The ICLEI Global Executive Committee represents ICLEI Members on the global level and is the only governance body able to amend the association’s By-laws. The ICLEI Global Executive Committee and the ICLEI Council are the global decision-making and oversight
Sumptoh Ulrich – the Mayor of Port Vila City Council, Vanuatu – made a call for action in response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Pam. Cyclone Pam is regarded as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of Vanuatu. 166,000 people were directly or indirectly affected by the storm, and 96% of
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