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July 2017
GI-REC at the EcoCity World Summit (Melbourne, Australia)
EcoCity Builders, a key GI-REC partner organization, is holding its bi-annual world summit from 12-14 July 2017. The initiative is launching a partnership between EcoCity Builders, the World Council for City Data, and UN Environment on piloting in the Brussels Region. More information on the event at: https://www.ecocity2017.com/
Find out more »November 2017
COP23
The 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 23) will take place in Bonn from 6 to 17 November 2017.
Find out more »December 2017
UN Environment Assembly
The UN Environment Assembly, the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment, will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution. The UN Environment Assembly has the universal membership of all 193 UN Member States and the full involvement of UN organizations, specialized agencies, inter-governmental organizations, civil society and the private sector. In bringing together these varied communities, the Assembly provides a groundbreaking platform for leadership on global environmental policy. This year’s Assembly will be sustainable and…
Find out more »February 2018
World Urban Forum 2018 (WUF9)
The Ninth Session of the World Urban Forum will be the first session to focus on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda adopted in Habitat III. In the New Urban Agenda, participating States request the report of the implementation of the Agenda to incorporate, to the extent possible, the inputs of multilateral organizations, civil society, the private sector and academia and to build on existing platforms such as the World Urban Forum. WUF9 will be an instrumental to substantively…
Find out more »March 2018
CitiesIPCC Conference 2018 (Cities and Climate Change Science Conference)
The conference aims to inspire the next frontier of research focused on the science of cities and climate change. The primary goal of the conference is to assess the state of academic and practice-based knowledge related to cities and climate change, and to establish a global research agenda based on the joint identification of key gaps by the academic, practitioner and urban policy-making communities. The conference seeks to forge stronger partnerships among these communities and catalyze new processes for joint…
Find out more »April 2018
Resilient Cities 2018
Resilient Cities – The Annual Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation – is hosted every year in Bonn. In 2010 ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the World Mayors Council on Climate Change and the City of Bonn, Germany launched Resilient Cities, the first forum on cities and adaptation to climate change (in 2012 renamed as Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation). More than 500 participants and beyond 30 partners each year helped make Resilient Cities a milestone event connecting local government leaders and climate adaptation…
Find out more »June 2018
ICLEI World Congress 2018
The ICLEI World Congress is the premier global gathering of hundreds local and regional governments and their strategic partners steering the course of the global urban agenda.
Find out more »June 2020
DARING CITIES 2020
The Bonn Forum for Urban Leaders Taking on the Climate Emergency Daring Cities invites urban leaders from around the world who are pushing boundaries in their own contexts to come together in Bonn for three days of idea exchange on how to take on resilience and mitigation in the time of urgent climate crisis. Urban leaders from around the world are invited to be a part of this productive and action-oriented event.
Find out more »July 2020
WEBINAR: There is no place like home – Cities making sustainable living a reality (Sustainable Living 1.5 Webinar Series)
UNEP and GI-REC partner Ecocity Builders are jointly organizing a webinar that will discuss the fascinating topic of envisioning the future of what sustainable cities and neighbourhoods ought to be like for vibrant local economies and strong local communities. The global sanitary crisis bringing about unprecedented changes have shoved us to consider more than ever cities and their neighbourhoods’ tremendous impacts, on not only climate change and resources consumption, but also on how a community is organised to live together…
Find out more »September 2020
9TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND TOWNS
The conference will demonstrate the urgent need for local governments to assume responsibility for urban transformation and lead the way in guiding Europe towards a secure and sustainable future. The world is facing major environmental, economic and social challenges that require a substantial transformation in all aspects of society. Without this transformation, global and European self-set goals like the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Europe long term strategy on GHG emission reduction will remain unreachable. The…
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