COP27 #BuildingsPavilion
Place: #BuildingsPavilion Auditorium (lot. n°113)
Date: 15 November 2022
Time: 13:30-16:30 Eastern European Time
Lead organisation(s): UNEP Cool Coalition, RMI, SEforALL, WWF
Watch Recordings
Second Panel
Third Panel
Description
This thematic session will explore opportunities for cities to accelerate access to sustainable climate solutions and will present best practices from around the world, with a focus on solutions to beat the rising heat with green, sustainable and inclusive approaches. The event will introduce the Nature for Cool Cities Challenge, showcase new findings from RMI on how urban nature can save cities energy and carbon, and share cities’ latest on-the-ground experience with sustainable urban cooling solutions.
Our cities are getting hotter. Today, 56% of the world’s population – 4.4 billion inhabitants – live in cities, and 1.4 billion of these people already face high climate risks. By 2100, cities across the world could warm by 4.4°C, exposing the world’s growing urban population to conditions that will damage human health, productivity, and quality of life.
Luckily, we have sustainable urban cooling solutions to increase resilience to climate risks and ensure equitable, while ensuring we create more sustainable urban futures. To ensure climate resilience and protect our natural world, cities must take a comprehensive, whole-systems approach to cool down and adapt – without warming the planet. Urban nature can help reduce temperatures, protect city dwellers and increase their thermal comfort, while supporting energy demand reduction, reduced air and water pollution, and increased health and wellbeing. Nature-based solutions can be brought to scale through increased awareness of their benefits among decision makers, enabling policies,effective investments and financing, and tailoring best practices to local contexts.
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Presentation: Beating the Heat Handbook - Sophie Loran, Cool Coalition Secretariat, UNEP
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Speakers
- Martina Otto, Head of CCAC Secretariat, United Nations Environment Programme
- Manuel Pulgar Vidal, Climate & Energy Global Practice Leader, WWF International
- Giorgia Rambelli, Director Mission Innovation Urban Transitions Mission (Moderator)
- Sophie Loran, Cool Coalition Secretariat, UNEP
- Umamaheshwaran Rajasekar, Chair, Urban Resilience, National Institute of Urban Affairs, India
- Sameer Kwatra, Policy Director, NRDC India Programme
- Kathy Baughman McLeod, Director and Senior Vice President of the Adrienne Arsht–Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
- Cassie Sutherland, Managing Director, Climate Solutions and Networks, C40
- Paul Currie, Associate Director, Urban Systems, ICLEI Africa
- Joanna Mclean Masic, Lead Urban Specialist and Global Lead, Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land Global Practice, World Bank
- Elizabeth Wangeci Chege, Energy Efficiency & Cooling Specialist, SEforALL (Moderator)
- Anthony Pearce, Co-lead WWF Cities
- Heather House, City Engagement Manager, Climate Champions Team
- Julia Meisel, Manager, Urban Transformation, RMI (Moderator)
- Rohit Sen, Head, Sustainable Energy, ICLEI
- Graeme Maidment, Mission Innovation, UK BEIS
