Highlights of day 1 at Resilient Cities 2014

30 May 2014

 

The Resilient Cities 2014 Congress started today with a strong call for sustainable urbanization and adaptation. ICLEI President Mr. David Cadman formally opened the Congress with keynotes from Mayor Juergen Nimptsch of the City of Bonn, as well as Ms Tania Rödiger-Vorwerk – Deputy Director of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales also delivered his remarks via a video message in which he emphasised the opportunities that an integrated approach and city-regional food systems can have for ecosystem services, resource-use efficiency and recycling in sustainable cities

 

The need for this integrated approach is now urgent and that is why meetings such as this are vitally important in order to articulate fully the vision and help establish ways to build the evidence base and galvanize the wheels of change. So I can only congratulate ICLEI for their leadership in this area over the past few years." – HRH Prince of Wales. 

 

The South Asian region is represented by ICLEI South Asia staff: Emani Kumar, Executive Director, ICLEI South Asia and ICLEI Deputy Secretary General; Sunandan Tiwari, Deputy Executive Director; Ritu Thakur, Senior Project Officer; as well as a number of city representatives: Tikender Singh Panwar, Deputy Mayor of Shimla, India; Shamim Al Razi, Mayor of Singra, Bangladesh; Md Fayzul Karim Moyun; Mayor of Moulvibazar, Bangladesh; Tejas Shah, Health Officer, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, India; and Ms Seema Redkar, Researcher, Mumbai. Emani Kumar, during his keynote speech for ‘ICLEI and Its Resilient City Agenda: Setting the Congress Scene’ highlighted how ICLEI has already been working with 150 cities worldwide to help them with climate adaptation.

 

The South Asian delegation was a part of numerous sessions in the Congress:

 

Shamim Al Razi, Mayor of Singra, Bangladesh and Secretary General, Municipal Association of Bangladesh, was interviewed at the event, where he spoke about his city Singra, its vulnerabilities as far as climate change risks are concerned and what steps they are and will be taking in the future as well to make Singra and the whole of Bangladesh a Resilient city

 

Training, motivation and orientation can make a vast difference”, Mayor Shamim Al Razi.

Click here for the full interview.

 

Much more has happened on day 1 at Resilient Cities! For more information, visit http://resilientcitiesblog.iclei.org/.

 

ICLEI South Asia will again be offering an insight into South Asian experiences in the sessions on day 2 – 30 May 2014, where Sunandan Tiwari, Deputy Executive Director, ICLEI South Asia and Tikender Singh Panwar, Deputy Mayor of Shimla, will be presenting their views on ‘Moving from strategies to financing urban climate resilience in diverse stakeholder landscapes’ at session F3 at 16:45 – 18:15, room S34-35.

 

Follow live updates and stay in touch with the happenings at Resilient Cities 2014 by following the Congress at @ICLEI_ResCities and by following ICLEI South Asia at @ICLEISouthAsia.

 

 

 

 

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