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
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Welcome participants and opening greetings;
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Discussion of new developments in the urban resilience agenda;
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Congress keynotes; and
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Introduction to congress highlights and forums and local government actions, including the
Reality Check Workshop cities.
METHODOLOGY
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Welcome and congress opening (45 minutes)
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Panel: Key outcomes and developments in urban resilience 2014-2015 (45 minutes)
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Keynotes (50 minutes)
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Special addresses and closing remarks (10 minutes)
SPEAKERS
Welcome
Chair: David Cadman, President 2006-2015, ICLEI –Local Governments for Sustainability
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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
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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
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Jerry Velasquez, Chief of Advocacy and Outreach, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction (UNISDR)
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Hyugjae Jang, Assistant Mayor representing ICLEI President Mayor Won-soon Park, Seoul
Metropolitan Government, Republic of Korea
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Maryke van Staden, Low Carbon Cities Program Manager and Director of the carbonn Center,
ICLEI
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Anne Odic, Head of the Local Authorities and Urban Development Division (CLD), Agence
Française de Développement (AFD), Paris, France
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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