SESSION DESCRIPTION P1 Opening Plenary Date: Monday, 8 June, 2015 Time: 10:00-12:30 Rooms: Plenary (S29/32) Language: Contact: E-mail: English Laura Kavanaugh [email protected] OBJECTIVE Welcome participants and opening greetings; Discussion of new developments in the urban resilience agenda; Congress keynotes; and Introduction to congress highlights and forums and local government actions, including the Reality Check Workshop cities. METHODOLOGY Welcome and congress opening (45 minutes) Panel: Key outcomes and developments in urban resilience 2014-2015 (45 minutes) Keynotes (50 minutes) Special addresses and closing remarks (10 minutes) SPEAKERS Welcome Chair: David Cadman, President 2006-2015, ICLEI –Local Governments for Sustainability Jürgen Nimptsch Mayor, City of Bonn, Germany; Co-Chair, World Mayors Council on Climate; Co-Chair as ICLEI Special Messenger to UNFCCC and carbonn Registry Hyugjae Jang, Assistant Mayor representing ICLEI President Mayor Won-soon Park, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Republic of Korea Opening address Gino Van Begin, Secretary General, ICLEI Panel: Key outcomes and developments in urban resilience 2014-2015 Facilitator: Yunus Arikan, Head of Global Policy and Advocacy, ICLEI Jerry Velasquez, Chief of Advocacy and Outreach, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Hyugjae Jang, Assistant Mayor representing ICLEI President Mayor Won-soon Park, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Republic of Korea Maryke van Staden, Low Carbon Cities Program Manager and Director of the carbonn Center, ICLEI Anne Odic, Head of the Local Authorities and Urban Development Division (CLD), Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Paris, France Dan Lewis, Chief of Urban Risk and Resilience, UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya (tbc) The broader urban resilience agenda Monika Zimmermann, Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI Keynotes Cities as first responders to climate change: A first look at the Second Assessment Report (ARC3-2) of the Urban Climate Change Research Network Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Climate Impacts Group, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and; Co-Director, Urban Climate Change Research Network, Columbia University/NASA, New York, USA Standardized indicators for resilient cities: ISO 37120 and the World Council on City Data Matthew Lynch, Vice President – Global Partnerships & Initiatives, World Council on City Data (WCCD), Toronto, Canada Local and regional government actions Pursuing green growth for sustainability and resilience - From National Strategies to Subnational Action Plan Datuk Seri Ir. Hj. Idris bin Hj. Haron, Chief Minister, Melaka State Government, Malaysia Mobilizing non-state actors, subnational governments, and local authorities ahead of COP21 Bernard Soulage, Vice President, Region Rhône-Alpes, France (tbc) Closing Remarks: Chair: David Cadman
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