Tag: C40 Mayors Summit

Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director at WRI, has a great about his experience at the C40 Cities Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo and the importance of accurately measuring greenhouse gas emissions from cities. C40 and ICLEI announced during the Summit their plan to jointly develop a new GHG accounting and reporting program.

Last night, C40 Chair New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, joined by São Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab, officially closed out the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Mayors Summit. The C40 Cities delegation joined he and Mayor Kassab on stage.

During the C40 Cities Mayors Summit this week the C40 Steering Committee drafted a Communiqué to highlight for participants of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development the increasingly important role cities play in adapting to and mitigating the impacts of climate change.

If you didn’t get a chance to catch the opening Plenary on Wednesday, you can watch C40 Chair, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and World Bank President Robert Zoellick’s opening remarks in full here.

This afternoon featured a session on Adaptation & Vulnerability to climate change. Dr. Mir Mustafizur Rahman, Private Secretary to the Mayor of Dhaka, Mr. Sutanto Soehodho, Deputy Governor of the City of Jakarta, and Ms. Flora Mokgohloa, Executive Director Environmental Management of Johannesburg, participated as panellists, presenting their work to develop policies and adapt urban infrastructure in the face of increasing natural threats.