As part of Climate Emergency Mobilization Day, this session discusses the difference between ongoing climate action and action in a state of climate emergency, as well as the critical dimension of urgency, the need to act now and the significant risks of inaction.
Run of show
- Welcome & Introduction
- Keynote: The climate emergency – The necessity to act now
- Fireside chat: Putting words to action – Beyond declaring a climate emergency
- How to accelerate urgent climate action: What cities and regions need
- Making the most of Daring Cities 2021
- Wrap-up and overview of following sessions
Speakers
- Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Professor in Earth System Science, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Ravi Bhalla, Mayor, City of Hoboken, USA
- Patrizia Gragnani, Representative, Cities working group, UNFCCC Youth NGO Constituency (YOUNGO); PhD fellow, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
- Isabella de Roldão, Vice Mayor, City of Recife, Brazil
- Sayda Melina Rodríguez Gómez, State Secretary of Sustainable Development, State of Yucatan, Mexico
- Frank Cownie, Mayor, City of Des Moines, USA; President, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
- Edgar Villasenor Franco, Director, ICLEI Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
- Yunus Arikan, Director of Global Advocacy, ICLEI