Brussels Urban Summit 2023 will confront challenges common to all cities
Reps from 300 cities worldwide will head to the Belgian capital, 12-15 June
The ICLEI World Congress 2021 – 2022: The Malmö Summit will feature three days of rich and engaging sessions, Source: ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability
The ICLEI World Congress 2021 - 2022 is a year-long experience, hosted by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Malmö, Sweden
The ICLEI World Congress 2021 - 2022 is a year-long experience, hosted by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Malmö, Sweden. ICLEI’s triennial gathering offers multiple opportunities to connect throughout 2021 – 2022. One of them is The Malmö Summit on 11-13 May 2022. It offers the possibilities to exchange with and inspire one another on the best practices in local sustainable development and learn first-hand from the City of Malmö’s wealth of sustainability initiatives.
The ICLEI World Congress 2021 – 2022: The Malmö Summit will feature three days of rich and engaging sessions, divided into the following overarching categories:
These sessions will explore the efforts needed in our cities, towns and regions in order to move towards a climate-neutral future, specifically looking at:
These sessions will investigate cutting-edge discussions in building resilience capacity in our cities, towns, regions and communities, making them healthy homes both for people as well as for nature:
These sessions will look at the cities and communities we are aiming to live in from two different perspectives:
In order for cities, towns and regions to achieve these objectives, key enablers for action need to be leveraged. The Malmö Summit will give special attention to two of those enablers: Sustainable finance and Innovation.
Financing sustainable development means bringing all actors along the investment chain behind the SDGs to respond to the crisis in the short-term and rebuild over the long-term for a more resilient and sustainable future. We need to use financial reserves to implement a greener and more resilient recovery, avoid SDG washing and align global finance with the Sustainable Development Goals. Our sessions will look at this topic from two main perspectives:
New/innovative approaches for addressing urban sustainability are needed and our ICLEI Network can already cover a wide range. The sessions under this area will show that innovation is a process of trial, failure and success, looking at innovation through two lenses:
MOBILE WORKSHOPS: BRINGING SUSTAINABILITY TO LIFE
On Thursday, 12 May 2022, thirteen Mobile Workshops the City of Malmö will be organized especially for the ICLEI World Congress 2021-2022: Malmö Summit. Participants will explore and learn first-hand about the innovative solutions and approaches that the City of Malmö has implemented to advance its own sustainable development.
To learn more and register, go to worldcongress.iclei.org
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