Urban Future Global Conference
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Urban Future Global Conference
May 22, 2019 - May 24, 2019
Join #Cities4Forests at #UFGC19 with #CityChangers. You can register through the Urban Future Global Conference website.
PLENARY
Boring no more: the #1 tool for cities to initiate change
Scott Francisco Pilot Projects
WHEN
Day 1 – May 22 16.00-17.30
WHERE
The Hub H2
The City-Forest Nexus: Building with wood as a climate change alliance. From skyscrapers to pot-scrapers, wood is seen as the most viable material for making a sustainable built environment. What are the best practices and potentials for linking urban wood to the world’s forests and the people who steward them.
SESSION
Nature-based solutions: How amazing green solutions can improve your city
Todd Gartner World Resources Institute
WHEN
Day 2 – May 23 9.00-10.30
WHERE
DOGA D1
Nature-based solutions for sustaining water resources. Sharing innovative and unique practices from Cities4Forests founding cities, including how to prioritize action on nature-based solutions to attract finance and investment, to address key enabling conditions, and to monitor and communicate results to residents and decision-makers.
WORKSHOP
Wood Urbanism: the power of procurement for global forests
Scott Francisco Pilot Projects
WHEN
Day 2 – May 23 11.00-12.30
WHERE
The Hub H7
The Cities4Forests Workshop brings together city policy, urban development and forests around the wood-city-forest nexus: how to link “wood urbanism” to forest conservation and climate goals, while harnessing the power of urban consumption to benefit global forests, including forest carbon credits, wood procurement case studies and forest risk commodities.
PLENARY
Boring no more: the #1 tool for cities to initiate change
SESSION
Nature-based solutions: How amazing green solutions can improve your city
WORKSHOP
Wood Urbanism: the power of procurement for global forests
Scott Francisco Pilot Projects
When
Day 1 – May 22 16.00-17.30
Where
The Hub H2
The City-Forest Nexus: Building with wood as a climate change alliance. From skyscrapers to pot-scrapers, wood is seen as the most viable material for making a sustainable built environment. What are the best practices and potentials for linking urban wood to the world’s forests and the people who steward them.
Todd Gartner World Resources Institute
When
Day 2 – May 23 9.00-10.30
Where
DOGA D1
Nature-based solutions for sustaining water resources. Sharing innovative and unique practices from Cities4Forests founding cities, including how to prioritize action on nature-based solutions to attract finance and investment, to address key enabling conditions, and to monitor and communicate results to residents and decision-makers.
Scott Francisco Pilot Projects
When
Day 2 – May 23 11.00-12.30
Where
The Hub H7
The Cities4Forests Workshop brings together city policy, urban development and forests around the wood-city-forest nexus: how to link “wood urbanism” to forest conservation and climate goals, while harnessing the power of urban consumption to benefit global forests, including forest carbon credits, wood procurement case studies and forest risk commodities.
Note: Cities4Forests is not the conference organizer.