“Cities and regions’ solutions to global nature-related challenges” on 6 May 2021.
In this email, we would like to share with you the links to the resources mentioned during the webinar.
The following presentations were delivered by the panel of speakers:
10am SAST
- Roadmap to COP15 and update of events:
- Ingrid Coetzee, Director Biodiversity, Nature & Health, ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center & ICLEI Africa
- Speakers:
- Lorraine Gerrans, Head: Sustainable Partnerships and Financing in the Environmental Management Department of the City of Cape Town
- Professor C.R. Babu, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), University of Delhi
- Dave Barlow, Senior Policy Officer, Manchester City Council’s Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Team, United Kingdom
- Esmeralda Byberi, Directorate of Free Trade Zones, Foreign investments and Diaspora, Tirana
3pm SAST
- Roadmap to COP15 and update of events:
- Ingrid Coetzee, Director Biodiversity, Nature & Health, ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center & ICLEI Africa
- Speakers:
- Scott Tess, Sustainability & Resilience Officer, City of Urbana, Illinois
- Jessica Kavonic, Senior Professional Officer: Climate Resilience and Urban Natural Assets, ICLEI Africa
- Julia Murphy,Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer, City of San Antonio Office of Sustainability, San Antonio
- João Portella Sobral, Forest engineer, specialist on agroecology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
To access further resources mentioned in the webinar, please refer to the following links:
- The fullwebinar presentation.
- The full recording of the 10amand the 3pm
- The link to past webinar recordingsin the series, which are also available on our advocacy website.
- To read and sign the Edinburgh Declaration, see here.
- Stay up to date with the most recent advocacy newsletter, see here.
- Register for our monthly advocacy newsletters here.
- Read The Nature of Manchester: Local Action Project
- Learn more about Manchester’s My Wild City project, aimed at reconnecting people with wildlife in the city, here.
- Read about the city of Urbana’s donation for tree planting here.
- For more information about San Antonio’s commitment to biodiversity and ecosystem services through climate action and adaptation, please see hereand here.
- SA Climate Ready, San Antonio’s climate plan may be accessed in EnglishandSpanish.
- To learn more about San Antonio partners mentioned in the presentation, see Hardberger Park Conservancy (Land Bridge), Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, San Antonio River Foundation, and Bracken Cave Preserve/Bat Conservation International.
For a summary of the webinar by our generous supporting partner at the Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework- EU Support Project, please click here.
We are proud to have the local and subnational advocacy for nature website, which serves as an information platform to keep our constituency up to date with the latest relevant news, events and resources that relate to local and subnational governments. We invite you to visit the website regularly and to share it with your networks.
We hope you found the Webinar informative and the shared information to be helpful to your work!
If you have questions, comments or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us at tamlyn.duncan@iclei.org. We look forward to connecting with you again soon.