Sustainable Development Goals & Sustainable Cities (Green Week)

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This event takes Sustainable Cites as its focus - an important outcome of Rio+20, and one where air quality factors greatly since cities consume 70% of global energy, emit 70% of greenhouse gas emissions and where their expansion presents a range of challenges.

The purpose of the event will be to gather views on how the issue of Sustainable Cities, and its related policy work will play a role in the forthcoming universal Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) & post-2015 development discussions. Importantly, this discussion will follow the report of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

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For the purpose of the discussion, panellists and participants will need to consider how all the pillars of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental) could be incorporated into a potential SDG dedicated to cities (or perhaps the SDGs more broadly), with the added complexity of what works inside the EU as well as what works outside of it.

Panellists (confirmed so far)

·         Mr. Janez Potočnik, European Environment Commissioner

·         Mr. Michele Candotti, UNEP Chief of Staff

·         Ms. Martha Delgado Peralta, Former Mexico City Secretary of Environment, and ICLEI Vice President

·         Dr. Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts (moderator)

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