Resilient Cities 2011 - 2nd World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change
From 03.06.2011 to 05.06.2011
REEEP Endorsed
Organised by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
Location: Bonn, Germany
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Description:
Co-hosts: World Mayors Council on Climate Change and City of Bonn
While cities make efforts to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and increase urban energy-efficiency, they are at the same time vulnerable. Climate change is already leading to an increased frequency of extreme weather events bringing floods, landslides and droughts while melting glaciers threaten the drinking water supply of large cities and sea-level rise imperils many coastal communities.
Local governments have a responsibility to protect their people, property, and resources. With the economies, livelihoods, safety and character of their communities at stake, cities are harnessing their visionary leadership and policy tools to increase resilience as they prepare for the future.
Resilient Cities is the global platform for learning, cooperation and networking on all aspects of urban resilience and adaptation to climate change. Resilient Cities is the place to be if you wish to:
- Secure the latest and most groundbreaking information on strategies carried out worldwide, presented by leading and authoritative experts
- Showcase innovative solutions developed at the local level by your company / organisation
- Interact directly with leading international organizations, local governments leaders and representatives of the private sector in order to strengthen your network of prospective partners
The Mayors Adaptation Forum 2011 (MAF) forms the Mayors' segment of the Resilient Cities 2011 congress. Under the leadership of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change through the Mayors of Bonn and Mexico City, the 2011 Forum will focus on:
- governance for effective urban adaptation
- financing urban adaptation
- progress review of the Making Cities Resilient campaign of the United Nations launched at the Mayors Adaptation Forum 2010
- implementation of the Global Cities Covenant on Climate (Mexico City Pact) and its innovative mechanism, the carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR), with a specific focus on adaptation actions
- connecting Mayors and Governors to high-level experts of the UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programme
Click the website link or download the brochure or press release below for further information.