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Urban Future Global Conference

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Urban Future Global Conference

May 22, 2019 - May 24, 2019

Urban Future Global Conference

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.

Details

Start:
May 22, 2019
End:
May 24, 2019