Paris 4 December 2015— At the Paris Climate Summit, currently drawing decision-makers, experts and organisations from all over the world, 3 December was officially named ‘Buildings Day’ and for the first time put the building sector at the centre stage of these seminal climate talks.
New research is demonstrating the critical importance of urban form in high variations of greenhouse gas emissions per capita, and the urgent need to manage the proliferation of high-emissions urban forms including urban sprawl.
When: Friday 4 December, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Venue: Blue Zone, Climate Change Studio
Background:
Cities account for a significant proportion of the world’s greenhouse gases, and are homes to concentrated populations that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate action planning represents a core tool or discipline for developing comprehensive, coherent, and effective approaches to reducing emissions and building climate resilience in cities.
Date: Monday, 7 December 2015
Time: 15:00 – 16:30
Room: Large Room
Session access: Open
Contact : Faderr Johm
Email: faderr.johm@unhabitat.org
Cc: robert.kehew@unhabitat.org
Organized by: UN-Habitat
Description
Date and venue: December 8th, 13:30 – 15:00, Netherlands Pavilion (Capacity: 70)
Content leaders: Mark Wenzel (California/ZEV Alliance), Pierpaolo Cazzola (IEA/EVI); Andre Dzikus, Debashish Bhattacharjee (UN-Habitat/UEMI) Logistics leaders: Peter Wilbers (Netherlands); Cornie Huizenga (PPMC)
7 minutes: Welcome and introduction
COP21, Grand Palais, Paris | December 8, 2015 | 13.00-14.50 Hosted by Veolia
Background
COP21 is an important milestone for the international community to address the urbanization issues with relation to climate change and to raise the importance of this agenda in view of the upcoming United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) to be held in Quito in October 2016.
Date: Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Room: Large Room
Session access: Open
Contact: Faderr Johm
Email: faderr.johm@unhabitat.org
Cc: robert.kehew@unhabitat.org
Organized by: UN-Habitat
DESCRIPTION
Date: 8 December 2015, 18:30 – 20:00
Venue: Le Bourget COP21 Venue, Blue Zone, Room 4
Background
The world will come together in Paris in December 2015 to finalize a new climate agreement for 21st century. Similarly, a new urban agenda will be decided in Quito in October 2016 at the third UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urbanization (Habitat III).
2 Dec. (Resilience Day), 12-13:30, Dutch Pavilion (hosted by the Dutch government)
The objective of the session is to give a platform to city leaders to highlight their progress on strengthening the resilience of their communities and economies.
Convening a panel of high-level stakeholders across government and financial and development institutions, the session will activate a new platform for knowledge exchange by showcasing how cities across the world are fostering innovative, transformative resilience solutions.
Online resilience tools platform and Local Governments' Pocket Guide to Resilience 8 Dec. (Cities Day), 16:30-17:30, ICLEI Pavilion
The purpose of this session is to engage cities in a new Cities Alliance Joint Work Programme on Resilient Cities (JWP), comprising 15 city and community organizations dedicated to serving local governments' efforts to build their resilience to multiple shock and stresses, including the impacts from climate change.