Ogun State hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Tuesday 8 December. Entitled “Ogun State, Nigeria: Forest Landscape Restoration Project”, the session presented an initiative to revitalize a degraded area of 108,000 hectares within the state through reforestation. In particular, the project will pursue agroforestry, which involves planting
Siemens AG and Danfoss hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion at COP21 on Tuesday, 8 December. Entitled “Accelerating Low-Carbon Development in Emerging Cities through City-Business Cooperation,” the session convened global business leaders and mayors to discuss low-carbon investments and the potential for city-business collaboration in emerging middleweight cities. Dr. Shamshad Aktar, Executive
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Monday, 7 December. Entitled “How can development banks and local financial institutions promote climate finance for local authorities?” the session allowed a high-level international panel to discuss their experiences and to assess what has worked
Monday 7 December 2015, Paris, France – Cities Alliance, in cooperation with UN-Habitat, hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at the 21st UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP21). Entitled “Cities Take Climate Action” the session convened representatives of cities, non-governmental organizations, NGOs, national governments and international organizations for a lively debate
ICLEI and ENGIE hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Wednesday, 2 December. Entitled “Outsourcing of municipal services – two case studies from the UK,” the session presented preliminary findings from two cases of public sector outsourcing and discussed them in terms of the opportunities and challenges of
As a key partner of the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) will host two sessions: “Innovative Finance for Urban Resilience” on Tuesday, 8 December from 16.00 to 17.00 in the Pavilion Agora, and “Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot: A City-based Approach” on Wednesday, 9 December from 11.15 to 12.45
The Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) hosted a workshop at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Saturday, 5 December. In the session, VEC described its success in stimulating green economic development, assessing which aspects could be replicated in other cities and detailing the challenges that cities might face in this endeavor. Raymond
ICLEI hosted a session entitled “Local Action, Global Results: From Recognition to Raising Ambitions” at the Cities & Regions Pavilion on 5 December. Attended by city leaders from around the world, the session allowed participants to share achievements on local climate action and to look to the future. Wonsoon Park, Mayor of Seoul and
The Nord-Pas de Calais region hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Tuesday 2 December. The session presented the implementation and impacts of the Third Industrial Revolution in the Nord-Pas de Calais region of France. The Third Industrial Revolution, discussed primarily by American economist and social theorist Jeremy
ICLEI hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on 4 December to showcase the carbonn® Climate Registry (cCR) – the world’s leading reporting platform to enhance transparency, accountability and credibility of climate action of local and subnational governments. The cCR works with multiple partners and supports 14 global initiatives