ICLEI’s delegation at the 7th World Urban Forum

10 April 2014

 

ICLEI First Vice President Martha Delgado, ICLEI Vice President Mary Jane Ortega, ICLEI South American Secretariat Director, Florence Laloe, ICLEI EcoMobility Program Manager, Santosh Kodukula, Mayor Wansu-Park of Changwon, the Chair of the EcoMobility Alliance and Commissioner of Nashik, India, Mr. Sanjay Khandare, who also gave a presentation on the pilot project activities for the project "Operationalisation of Nexus approaches in Nashik city" being carried out in the city at the networking event “Urban NEXUS: strengthening inter-sectoral linkages and crossing municipal boundaries for integrated resource-efficiency”; represented ICLEI at the Seventh session of the World Urban Forum, which took place from 5-11 April in the city of Medellín, Colombia. 

 

At the 7th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF7)convened in Medellin, Colombia, in addition to numerous events, ICLEI announced its commitment to move forward with Istanbul Water Consensus, joined forces with global partners on a new collaboration on Urban Resilience, and provided inputs in the consultations of United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities (UNACLA), UNHabitat Cities and Climate Change Initiative Advisory Committee and Cities Workstream of the UN Climate Summit to be held on 23 September 2014, and preparations toward HABITATIII conference to be convened in 2016.

 

Participants convened at the city’s exposition center, Plaza Mayor, for six days of discussions examining the conference’s theme "Urban Equity in Development – Cities for Life". In addition to serving as a prime opportunity to discuss the state of our cities today, the Seventh session of the World Urban Forum (WUF7) also came out to be central in substantively feeding into the preparation processes of the Post 2015 Development Agenda and into the review of the urban agenda in Habitat III in 2016. The Forum also lead a global effort advocating for sustainable and equitable urban development, and advancing its placement on the political and media agenda. 

 

For more information on the reports and conclusions visit:

http://wuf7.unhabitat.org/wuf7-reporting-and-conclusions 

 

The full WUF7 summary report can also be found here

 

 

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