Stakeholder Workshop 3
"Joint activities: climate change in the urban
context", CAOP, The Hague, 31 March & 1 April
2009
The third URBAN-NET Stakeholder Workshop in The Hague brought
together 45 professionals from the URBAN-NET partner countries. In
four sub-sessions, participants, experts and URBAN-NET members
discussed several options for joint activities.
The overall ambition of the workshop was to work towards the
development of joint activities in the realm of climate change
between national urban research programmes and/or research funders,
with the input from the end user to assure usability and practical
implementation of the end results.
A majority of the world’s energy consumption takes place in cities
or due to the transport of goods between cities. This proportion is
set to grow as the United Nations forecast projects three in five
people in the world will live in cities within the next twenty
years. This global trend toward increased urbanisation has as a
consequence that climate change impacts in most countries will
mainly affect urban populations, not rural or traditional
settlements. Thus, climate change and urban growth are inseparably
linked, and general issues of sustainability require an urban
focus. In addition, cities are not only vulnerable to changes in
climate, but they also have great potential to bring about
innovative and easily reproduced solutions.
The tasks of the workshop were to:
- Get acquainted with the possible joint activities that can be undertaken (i.e. results of the survey);
- Further deepen the knowledge of selected joint activities in separate workshops through brainstorming and clustering;
- Draft recommendations to the URBAN-NET consortium regarding facilitating of joint activities;
- Setting up of consortia of partners that will develop specific joint activities.
The full programme for the Stakeholder Workshop and copies of
the presentations given are below. The conference report will be
available soon.
Stakeholder Workshop 3 Programme
Stakeholder Workshop 3 delegate list
URBAN-NET Introduction - Paul Sizeland
Keynote Speaker - Prof Ingmar Elander
Sessions 1 and 2: Sinead Mullins, session expert -
Dissemination events
Sessions 1 and 2: Birgit Georgi, session expert - Good
practices
Sessions 1 and 2: Feedback and results
Session 3: Koos van Dijken, session expert - List of
relevant indicators
Session 3: List of relevant indicators
Session 3:
Feedback and results
Session
4: Paivi Elmkvist, session expert - Communities of practice
Session 4:
Feedback and results
Session
5: Keela Shackell, session expert - Self funding networks
Session 5:
Feedback and results
Session 5: Joint applications for EU funds and
programmes
Stakeholder Workshop 3: Proceedings
Stakeholder Workshop 3: Annex