Event information

Category	Roundtable

Title	Ministers' Roundtable - Vancouver + 30: The Changing Role of Cities and Global Sustainable Development

Day / Time	Monday, June 19th / 15:00 - 18:00

Room

Event Description	Ministers will address key issues relating to the changing role of cities in a globalised world. Sustainable urbanization will be discussed in the context of experiences/lessons learned from national, international and other jurisdictional perspectives: How can national governments support sustainable cities? How can national governments partner with other jurisdictions to support urban sustainability? How can national governments link their international agendas to the local level - e.g. working with cities to address the MDGs?

Featuring	Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, Government of Canada, Canada - Co-Chair John Pombe Magufuli, Minister of Housing, Lands and Human Settlements, Government of Tanzania, Co-Chair WUF 3 - Co-chair Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International, Chancellor, University of Ottawa, Canada - Moderator Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT; Under-Secretary General of United Nations, Kenya - Remarks
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Partners	Government of Canada