Habitat III United Nations Conference
Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in 2016. The United Nations General Assembly decided to convene, the Habitat III Conference to reinvigorate the global commitment to sustainable urbanization, to focus on the implementation of a “New Urban Agenda”, building on the Habitat Agenda of Istanbul in 1996.
More information: unhabitat.org/habitat-iii
UCLG WORLD CONGRESS 2016
The United Cities and Local Governments Congress, otherwise known as the “Summit of Local and Regional Leaders”, is the highest governing body of the World Organization.
Held every three years, the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders has acquired, during the course of previous editions, a strong and enviable reputation within the international community. This high‑calibre event remains referential and one of
the most anticipated meetings for local and regional leaders and decision makers.
It brings together over 3,000 representatives of towns, cities, metropolises and regions, civil society, the business world and academia from around the world to interact with their colleagues from across the globe.
The Summit is also the occasion where all members of UCLG are able to exercise their rights, influence the global development agenda and guide the UCLG work plan for the next three years.
The Third World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders will take place from 12 to 15 October 2016 and will be hosted by the city of Bogotá, Colombia’s capital.
More information: www.bogota2016.uclg.org
Climate Summit for Local Leaders
On December 4, Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of the City of Paris and Michael R. Bloomberg, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change – in partnership with the global networks of cities and local governments for climate action – will co-host the Climate Summit for Local Leaders, a global meeting of over a thousand mayors on climate change.
The Climate Summit for Local Leaders is being held in the framework of the 21st United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21), being celebrated in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015. COP21 aims to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate change, with the goal of keeping global warming below 2°C. The conference is expected to attract close to 50,000 participants including 25,000 official delegates representing national and subnational governments, intergovernmental organizations, UN agencies, NGOs and civil society.
The Climate Summit for Local Leaders will highlight and build on the efforts of the Compact of Mayors, a global coalition of cities pledging to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions, enhance resilience to climate change, and track their progress transparently. It will showcase major climate initiatives supported by local and subnational governments and increase the visibility of our constituency at COP21.
The meetings of the UCLG World Council and Executive Bureau will also be held in Paris during COP 21.
Smart City Expo
The world leading smart city event, bringing together global, national, and regional urban representatives, thought leaders, academic institutions, research centers, incubators, investors, and top corporations that have the kind of decision-making power that drives smart cities and empower its citizens.
European Conference on "SMART MOBILITY PLANNING"
The mobility and transport planning will face major challenges: Urbanisation, demographic change and new technologies. The Interreg IVB-Project NISTO - New Integrated Smart Transport Options - developed an integrated mobility planning toolkit facilitating the evaluation of mobility concepts. The evaluation framework offers methods to appraise regional or local mobility projects in terms of their sustainability, stakeholder preferences, societal impact and policy target achievements.
With the NISTO final conference on ‘SMART MOBILITY PLANNING – The innovative evaluation toolkit’ on 16th November 2015 in Brussels’s Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU, the NISTO project partners proudly present the NISTO evaluation toolkit for smart integrated mobility planning in Europe, the first toolkit combining the Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA), Social Cost-Benefit Analysis (SCBA), Multi-Actor-Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA) as well as target monitoring.
Highlights
- Presentation of the European Evaluation Toolkit for Mobility Planning
- Keynote Speaker in Digitalisation, Participation and Sustainability in European Mobility Planning
- Project Market Place: the 14 Best-Practise Examples for smart mobility
More information: www.nisto-project.eu
9th European Ecommerce Conference "Reshaping the future of the digital economy"
Under the motto “Reshaping the future of the digital economy" on 18 – 19 November 2015 will be held in the City of Bilbao one of the most important events at the European level on the digital economy.
This year, the, European Ecommerce Conference will gather again international speakers and companies that are setting up the trends on the field of the digital economy, with a complete program of conferences, presentations and debates.
More information: www.eec-conference.com
UCLG-MEWA Smart Cities Committee Meeting
We inform you that the International Brand Cities Summit and UCLG-MEWA Smart Cities Committee Meeting, co-organized by United Cities and Local Governments Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA), World Academy for Local Government and Democracy (WALD) and Konya Metropolitan Municipality will take place on
8-9 September 2015 in the City of Konya, Turkey.
UCLG-MEWA Smart Cities Committee Meeting will provide a great opportunity for approval of the Committee program of activities by participants and exchange ideas about activities and works in the field of Smart City Practices which is the main theme of the meeting.
The deadline for sending the presentation request form is: August 15.
Please click on the links below to access the following documents:
II SEMINAR ON THE MODERNIZATION OF THE MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT
With the aim of boosting the exchange of knowledge and collaboration between cities, the UCLG Committee of Digital and Knowledge-based Cities organizes an annual thematic and operative event that can allow the exchange of experiences and knowledge as well as the debate among the participants, on topic related to the use of new technologies, innovation and knowledge to make more efficient and sustainable cities. The first meeting took place in 2013 in the City of Bordeaux (France) focused on the “Smart Local Economy”, the second one took place in 2014 in the City of Bilbao and was centered on the “Smart Local Governance: The challenge of good governance in local administrations”.
In 2015, the event will be held on 1-2 October 2015 in the City of Sao Paulo, Brazil, under the title:
II Seminar on the Modernization of the Municipal Management
The Seminar is organized by the National Confederation of Municipalities of Brazil (CNM) which holds the Vice-presidency of the Committee for Latin America and the Organization of American States (OEA), the Development Bank of Latin America, the Committee Presidency -Chaired by the City of Bilbao- and the Latin American Federation of Cities, Municipalities and Associations (FLACMA).
This event will represent a unique opportunity to exchange and disseminate innovative experiences in the field of the Municipal Public Management with the aim of reinforcing public administrations in the Region and fostering innovation in the public sector.
During two days, topics relevant to the management of Public Governments will be discussed, such as:
- Open government at local level
- Innovation in local administration
- Integrated Municipal management systems
- Electronic local government
- The need of boosting Public Privet Partnerships (PPPs)
- Sustainable urban mobility
- Technologies applied to environmental management
Registration to the seminar has no cost and it will have available translation to Spanish and Portuguese.
Each participant should take care of its own travel, visa and accommodation costs.
REGISTRATION
(in Spanish)
Should you have any question or need further information, please contact the International Department of the CNM. The contact person is Tatiane de Jesus (+55 61 2101-6032, email internacional@cnm.org.br).
More information: http://www.cnm.org.br/informe/exibe/dialogoii-seminario-de-modernizacion-de-la-gestion-municipal
