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Title Global Issues, Local Actions - The Global Footprint of Cities Day / Time Thursday, June 22nd / 13:30 - 15:30 Room MR09 Event Description Cities play an important role in addressing environmental topics at the local, national and global levels. Therefore, it is crucial to integrate urban issues, local priorities, capacities and lessons learned in national policies and global agendas. Only then, local stakeholders can live up to their role in implementing global conventions, multilateral environmental agreements and the Millennium Development Goals. At the same time, cities should be aware of linkages existing between their local concerns and the global environmental topics. The key questions now are: how, where and when can we strengthen these global-local linkages and which partners do we need to be successful? This event offers a platform to discuss these questions with cities, national governments and global organizations. It will focus on two urban environmental topics: climate change and biodiversity. Session Language English Speakers (information as provided by host organization) representatives local level representatives national level David Cadman, President ICLEI   Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) Host Organization UN-HABITAT, UNEP, ICLEI Host Organization Description The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. The Urban Environment Section in UN-HABITAT hosts two programmes: the joint UNEP/UN-HABITAT Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) and the Localising Agenda 21 Programme. Both programmes aim to assist cities in achieving more environmentally sustainable growth and development. They support local authorities and their partners in capacity building in urban environmental planning and management (EPM),using a broad-based participatory urban decision making approach. UNEP is the environment programme within the UN, providing leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. The Urban Environment Unit in UNEP is the agency's focal point for issues related to cities and the environment. It aims to integrate the urban dimension in UNEP’s work, with a focus on environmental issues that both have a local and an international dimension. These include air pollution, coastal areas, waste, biodiversity, and climate change. ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. More than 475 cities, towns, countries, and their associations worldwide comprise ICLEI's growing membership. ICLEI works with these and hundreds of other local governments through international campaigns and programs. Website (Organizer and partners) www.unhabitat.org/scp www.iclei.org www.unep.org/dpdl/urban_environment

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