COP26 - Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day headline event
Place: Meeting Room 4
Time: 9:00 - 10:30 GMT
Hosted by the UK Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, this is a high-level event in the UNFCCC space, focused on deep collaboration along the building's value chain,
The challenges associated with climate change and achieving the Paris Agreement goals and the increasing sense of urgency to engage in action that will result in tangible outcomes necessitate:
- New ways of working together, shaping a common vision, targets and goals across all stakeholders: One Voice, One Ambition.
- Adopting a collaborative approach in the Built Environment that leverages and expands the impact and outreach of existing public and private commitments and action on climate change and resilience by rallying all stakeholders behind the Paris Agreement and COP26 goals.
Moderator: Dame Jo Da Silva, Global Director of Sustainable Development, Arup
Setting the Scene: Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme
Speakers:
- Keynote: HE Eddie Hughes, Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, United Kingdom
- HE Leila Chikaoui, Minister for Environment, Tunisia
- Aaditya Thackeray, Environment Minister in Maharashtra Region, India
- Sello Mphaga, Acting Executive Director, City of Tshwane, South Africa
- Steve Adler, Mayor of Austin, Texas, USA
- Neil Martin, CEO, Lendlease Europe, UK
- Lorena Dellagiovanna, CDIO, Acting CEO Hitachi, Italy
- Mary Nicholson, Head of Responsible Investment, Macquarie Asset Management,
