Wifi login: see Annex II Final agenda #EEFcities
WG Water WG GAB WG AQCCEE WG Waste all day (green areas and (air quality, climate change, biodiversity) energy efficiency)
Wednesday 3rd April late afternoon Steering committee
evening Covenant of Mayors Signing Ceremony and Official Dinner
Session 1: The concept of resilience morning Session 2: Political debate – climate resilient cities Session 3: City resilience strategies Thursday 4th April afternoon Session 4: Deep-dive sessions: risk assessment, stakeholder partnerships, community resilience Site visits: see below for more information
evening Informal dinner (at own costs)
Session 5: Cultural/natural heritage and resilience Friday morning Session 6: Network update 5th April Session 7: City networking session
noon (optional) Light lunch
CONTACTS: Chair Daniel Freitas [email protected] EUROCITIES Joana Cruz [email protected] Heather Brooks [email protected] Genoa Alessandra Risso [email protected] Comune di Genova
Map, also available online: http://bit.ly/2W8iHmz
Keynote speakers:
Giuseppe Zampini, Chief Executive Officer, Ansaldo Energia Giuseppe Zampini has been CEO of Ansaldo Energia since 2001. He reshaped the Company’s business as it is today, growing internationally and developing independent technology platforms in Gas Turbines, Electric Generators and Steam Turbines. In the aftermath of the Morandi bridge disaster, Ansaldo Energia has been actively involved in collaborating with local and national authorities and civil protection agencies to share their experience and skills however they can. As CEO of the company, Giuseppe Zampini has taken the lead in coordinating these efforts and develop strategic partnerships with various stakeholders in order to ensure effective recovery in the face of increasing shocks.
Esteban Leon, Chief of Risk Reduction Unit and Head of City Resilience Profiling Programme, UN-Habitat Esteban Leon has a background in economics, finance, shelter/housing and settlements program design and management, capacity building, as well as building construction and reconstruction projects in post-crisis situations. He has worked in private sector (banking, microcredit and microfinance in Argentina and Bolivia), NGOs (slum upgrading, building constructions and reconstruction programmes in Bolivia and Kenya) and has been working for UN-Habitat Globally but based in Nairobi, Geneva, Panama and Barcelona.
Esteban has developed, fundraised, initiated and managed projects on Disaster Management and Post conflict shelter/housing and settlements recovery in Angola, Mozambique, Kenya, Pakistan, Lebanon, Peru, Colombia, Georgia, Gaza, Haiti, El Salvador, Fiji &Samoa and lately Lebanon, Syria, Philippines and Ecuador while supporting UN-HABITAT in Somalia, Myanmar and Bangladesh operations. He is the Global Programme Manager of the “Making cities sustainable and resilient: Implementing the Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-2030 at the local level” joint programme EC DG DEVCO/UN-ISDR & UN-Habitat implementing the City Resilience Programme in Asuncion (Paraguay), Barcelona (Spain), Dakar (Senegal), Maputo (Mozambique), Port Vila (Vanuatu) and Yakutsk (Russia). Esteban is also de Chair of the UN-ISDR "Making Cities Resilient" Global Campaign Steering Committee.
Rational:
Cities are facing increasing threats from climate change. From flooding to droughts and heatwaves, research shows that even if we limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, most European cities will be much more severely affected by climate change than previously thought. Indeed, cities are already experiencing the consequences of man-made climate change. Last summer’s heatwave and drought brought deadly fires to Sweden and Greece, and broke temperature records across much of northern and central Europe. As our climate changes, cities must change too.
This forum aims to improve understanding of what challenges cities face and what it means to be a climate resilient city, exploring why (and how) climate resilience can be a priority for the renewed EU institutions. By assessing different resilience strategies from cities across Europe, participants will discuss and determine what aspects of these strategies can be transferred and replicated in other cities.
DAY 1: Wednesday 3rd April Venue: Palazzo della Meridiana, Salita San Francesco 4
08.30 - 09.00 Welcome coffee and registrations, open all day Venue: Palazzo della Meridiana, Entrance hall
09.00 - 12.30 WG AQCCEE WG Water WG GAB WG Waste (Air Quality, Climate (Green Areas and Change and Energy Biodiversity) Efficiency)
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch Venue: Palazzo della Meridiana, Room “Sala 900”
WG AQCCEE WG Water WG GAB WG Waste 13.30 - 17.30 (Air Quality, (Green Areas and
Climate Change Biodiversity) and Energy
Efficiency)
17.30 - 18.30 Steering committee (WG Chairs only)
19.00 - 22.00 Signing Ceremony of Covenant of Mayors 2030 targets and Official Dinner (see below)
19.00 - 20.10 Signing Ceremony of the Covenant of Mayors 2030 targets Venue: Salone di Rappresentanza, Palazzo Tursi, Via Garibaldi 9
The EU has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. Now cities across Europe are joining the Covenant of Mayors movement for increased action on climate change by pledging themselves to this EU wide target. Today, the community gathers more than 8,800 local and regional authorities across 57 countries. Together, we are working to address the many challenges climate change presents to make our cities sustainable, climate-resilient and vibrant places! Our signatories benefit from encouragement by and examples of other pioneers, while strengthening collaboration with their citizens and local stakeholders through the development and monitoring of climate action plans. Join us for this celebration of politicians’ commitments to the CoM 2030 targets and to the future. Anna-Lisa Boni, Secretary General of EUROCITIES will welcome us and lead us through the night’s celebrations. We will have an introductory address by Alessandra Sgobbi, from DG CLIMA, before moving to hearing from the cities themselves on what it means for them to sign-up to the 2030 targets. The Mayor of Genoa, Marco Bucci, will give a short speech before we wrap up the event with closing remarks by Filip Araujo, Chair of EUROCITIES Environment Forum and Vice President for Porto.
Cities that are committing to the 2030 targets:
- Marco Bucci, Mayor, Muncipality of Genoa - Filipe Araujo, Vice President, City of Porto - Chiara Appendino, Mayor, City of Turin - Erion Veliaj, Mayor, City of Tirana - Valentina Orioli, Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Real Estate, Environment, Preservation and Redevelopment of the Historical City, City of Bologna - Christel Kohler, Deputy Mayor for the Environment, City of Strasbourg - Anna-Kaisa Heinämäki, Deputy Mayor of Growth, Innovation and Competitiveness Sector, City of Tampere - Ilaria Segala, Councillor for Urban planning, Economic and popular construction, Environment, City of Verona - Agnes Schönfelder, Head of Climate Change Strategy Office, City of Mannheim - Daniel Rees, Political Advisor to Vice Mayor for Urban Development, City of Oslo
20.15 - 22.00 Official Dinner Venue: Eataly Restaurant, Edificio Millo Porto Antico, Calata Cattaneo 15
DAY 2: Thursday 4th April Venue: Palazzo della Meridiana, Salita San Francesco 4
8.30 - 9.00 Welcome coffee and registrations Venue: Palazzo della Meridiana, Entrance hall
9.00 - 09.10 Welcome by Matteo Campora, Deputy Mayor for the Environment, City of Genoa 09.10 - 09.50 Session 1: The Concept of Resilience
The opening to our forum will highlight the convergence between climate change and infrastructure, placing a particular focus on developing resilient structures. Genoa has suffered from a number of shocks, from earthquakes to flooding, and of course most recently the devastating collapse of the Morandi bridge. In the aftermath of this disaster, Ansaldo Energia has been actively involved in collaborating with local and national authorities and civil protection agencies to share their experience and skills however they can. As Director of the company, Giuseppe Zampini will provide insight into how Genoa has been affected by climate change and how it is taking steps to increase its resilience in the light of increasing shocks. Keynote: Giuseppe Zampini, Chief Executive Officer, Ansaldo Energia
The session will introduce the concept of resilience and in particular the resilience to climate change, setting the stone for the whole conference. As head of the UN-Habitat City Resilience Profiling Programme, Estaban Leon will highlight the cost of non-adaptation and the two faces of resilience (i.e. ability to recover quickly from shocks and adopting a path to transform a city) Keynote: Esteban Leon, Head of City Resilience Profiling Programme, UN-Habitat
09.50 - 11.05 Session 2: Political debate – climate resilient cities
This session will explore what cities are doing to prepare themselves and adapt to climate change. We will ask what the European Commission is currently doing to help cities adapt and improve resilience. Politicians will then comment on what they need from the European institutions to help them deal with the increasing pressure climate change is putting on their cities and citizens. Moderator: Anna-Lisa Boni, Secretary General, EUROCITIES
Panel discussion: - Chiara Appendino, Mayor, City of Turin - Christel Kohler, Deputy Mayor for Environment, City of Strasbourg - Audrey Linkenheld, Councilor for Diversity and Social Innovation, in charge of the Green Capital Lille project and former member of French Parliament, City of Lille - Daniel Rees, Principal political adviser to the Vice Mayor for Environment and Transport, City of Oslo - Alessandra Sgobbi, Policy Officer, Adaptation, Directorate-General Climate Action, European Commission - Francesco Venturini, Chief Executive Officer, Enel X
11.05 - 11.45 Coffee break and family picture
11.45 - 13.00 Session 3: City Resilience Strategies City climate resilience strategies must consider and address economic, social and physical challenges. Join us in this session as we explore some of these strategies with input from the cities of Genoa, Milan, Wroclaw and Paris. Together, we’ll consider how aspects of these practical solutions could be transferred to other cities, with additional insight from 100 Resilient Cities and UN-Habitat on their experiences.
Moderator: Aminda Leigh
Panel discussion:
- Stefania Manca, Head of the Resilience Strat, Municipality of Genoa - Piero Pelizzaro, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Milan - Joanna Kiernicka-Allavena, Coordinator for Climate and Resilience, City of Wroclaw
Expert board:
- Lina Liakou, Managing Director, Europe & the Middle East, 100 Resilient Cities - Esteban Leon, Head of City Resilience Profiling Programme, UN-Habitat
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Session 4: Deep-dive session Breakout parallel sessions
How vulnerable is my city? How to create stakeholder Solutions for community Understanding the partnerships for resilience resilience complexity of climate risks at the city level This deep-dive session will This session will provide a better Cities could not act properly explore concrete solutions that understanding of the impacts of counting on their own resources cities are using to increase their climate change on citizens’ health and consultative and participatory resilience, focusing mainly on and well-being, social cohesion, mechanism, fostering the multi resilience to climate change but critical infrastructure, and various stakeholder engagement could also hinting on resilience to other economic sectors. represent the proper way to challenges such as social proceed to envisage a really inequalities and social cohesion. Panel discussion: innovative value chain to plan and This session aims at giving a draw the sustainable future of the flavour of different types of - Margaretha Breil, Co-author of urban areas. actions, discussing their impact EEA report on Social and barriers encountered. vulnerability to climate change Panel dicussion: in European cities Panel discussion: - Lina Karlsson and Lena Blom, - Mina Charnaux, Project Project coordinators, City of Officer, City of Strasboug - Gonçalo Canto Moniz, Gotenburg - Christiaan Norde, Researcher at the Center for - Filip Lefebre, Climate-Fit.City International Coordinator Social Studies, City of Porto project coordinator, VITO Sustainability, City of - Jackie Homan, Cluster lead - Roberto De Ferrari, EU Amsterdam at Climate-KIC UK and ANYWHERE project - Stefania Manca, Head of City Ireland coordinator, Municipality of Resilience Strategy, - Maarit Särkilahti, Project Genoa Municipality of Genoa Manager, City of Tampere - Mihaela Coman, Coordinator Group Discussion + Q&A of EU FLOOD-serv project, Group Discussion + Q&A Romania
Group Discussion + Q&A
15.30 -16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 18.00 Genoa site visits 1. Recovery and redistribution of surplus food: Join us to discover the Ricibo Network - the city platform that brings together 190 associations involved in the recovery and redistribution of food surpluses to those in need. This is a great example of collaboration between public and private organisation that points to a zero-waste city. At the headquarters of COOP CONDIVISO, take a virtual journey through the city to understand the who is involved in the network, what tools are employed to ensure the principles of a circular economy are enacted, and the impacts it is having on citizens.
2. Waste water treatment: The purification plant in Quinto: Tour of the waste water treatment plant. A recent investment of 24.3 million euros has funded the complete renewal of the plant, connect to the main sea, emergency protection of the cliff, the connection to the sewer networks of the municipalities of Bogliasco and Pieve Ligure, and an expanding of the area covered by the treatment through a new street system. Most importantly, this project greatly improved the waste water treatment process. Thanks to this new technology, the Genoa plant is one of the most innovative purification plants in Italy.
3. Cultural regeneration of the historic Genoese fortification system: The renovation and development of the structure of Genoese fortification sites is part of a long- term plan that has first seen the restoration of the ancient port and of the noble palaces of the 'Rolli'. More than just symbolizing the historic sieges of the city, this restoration crosses the boundaries of architecture, landscape and anthropology. Regeneration goes beyond the buildings themselves to offer guided tours, areas of recreation, opportunities for a subsidiary, event spaces, re-use in a commercial and tourist key compatible with the cultural and landscape value of the attractions.
4. Flood prevention project: The Scolmatore of Bisagno project has seen large investment in a flood prevention system which diverts excess flood water from the city directly into the sea, limiting the flow in the sections in the city. Join us as we discover impressive Scolmatore Dell'arno tunnel that starts upstream of the Ponte Gallo at the Sciorba and flows into the sea near the beach of S. Giuliano. This forms part of a wider flood prevention project, other works include widening of the riverbed, and a new pedestrian crossing (to replace an old bridge).
19.30 - 22.00 Informal dinner (at own cost, approximately 30 euros) Venue: Le Terrazze del Ducale, Piazza Giacomo Matteotti 8 Genova, 16123
DAY 3: Friday 5th April Venue: Palazzo della Meridiana, Salita San Francesco 4
08.30 - 09.00 Welcome coffee and registrations
09.00 - 10.30 Session 5: Cultural/Natural Heritage and Resilience
The increased risks that climate change brings to the built environment also apply to built heritage. This has led to the Venice Declaration on Building Resilience at the Local Level Towards Protected Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies, which brings together UNESCO, UN-HABITAT, EC, and individual city mayors. In this session we will consider how to overcome bottlenecks and explore appropriate measures to protect the natural/cultural heritage.
Moderator: Aminda Leigh
Panellists discussion:
- Carla Stardolini, Department of City Marketing, City Promotion, Cultural activities, Municipality of Genoa - Henk Jansen, Senior Advisor Heritage, City of Utrecht - Paola Letardi, National Research Council, Italian Ministry - Suzanne Jameson, Head of Creative Economy and project coordinator for ROCK, City of Liverpool
Group discussion + Q&A
10.30 - 11.30 Session 6: Future of EUROCITIES and Network Update Session designed to discuss the EUROCITIES goals and strategic objectives and the new working methods. Members will also be updated on the latest network and policy developments. WD1. EUROCITIES Goals and Strategic Objectives WD2. Policy Initiatives March 2019 WD3. EEF Strategy 2018-2020 WD4. EUROCITIES Manifesto WD5. EUROCITIES Statement Climate Change Ambition
WD6. EUROCITIES Briefing note on 2050 climate Long-term strategy
Presentations:
- Joana Cruz - EUROCITIES senior policy advisor - Anna-Lisa Boni - EUROCITIES Secretary General - Daniel Freitas – Porto, EEF chair
11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 - 13.00 Session 7: City Networking Session
Roundtable speed networking sessions moderated by cities which are interested in presenting an environment topics/project. Each roundtable will last 30 minutes.
Urban Agenda Partnership on Culture and Cultural heritage: Henk Jensen, Senior Advisor Heritage, City of Utrecht
Urban Partnership on Climate Adaptation update :
Stefania Manca, Coordinator of the Partnership on Climate Adaptation, Municipality of Genoa
"Strasbourg ça pousse", an initiative involving citizens to make the city greener: Mina Charnaux, Project officer Nature in the city, City of Strasbourg
Urban resilience to climate change: a multi-sectoral challenge: Filip Lefebre, Coordinator for H2020 project Climate-Fit-City, VITO
Climate adaptation strategy of the City of Lille: Marie Pellier, Chief of Lille Green Capital project, City of Lille Adele Bigot, Chief of project for cliamte adaptation, City of Lille
Annex I: Speaker biographies
CoM Signing Ceremony
NAME PICTURE BIOGRAPHY
Born in Genoa, after graduation (Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry) Marco Bucci Marco Bucci, has held multiple global assignments, having lived in Europe and the USA. Mayor of Genoa From the mid- 80s to the end of the 90s he has been working at 3M, chemicals. From 1999 to 2016 he has been working at Kodak and Carestream Health, leading operations to make the brand popular and plan further development phases. From October 2015 to April 2017 he was Chairman of the Board at Liguria Digitale, Genoa. Marco Bucci was elected Mayor of Genoa in June 2017. As the City Mayor he is responsible for: Institutional Bodies; Communications; International and European Policies; International Cooperation; Citizen participation in public decision-making; Policies and Development strategies for Subsidiary companies; European funding for Research and Development; Port and sea; Relationships with the City Council members; Municipalities and the Metropolitan area; Law and legal affairs; Sport promotion; Enhancement of municipal assets; Civil defense and enhancement of the value and quality of volunteers.
Alessandra Sgobbi holds a PhD in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development at Alessandra the School for Advanced Studies in Venice Foundation (Italy) and a M.Sc. in Environment Sgobbi and Resource Economics, University College London (UK). Policy Officer, Alessandra joined the European Commission’s Directorate General for Climate Action, Adaptation, DG where she deals with, among others, international climate change negotiations on CLIMA, European adaptation and loss and damage, science and knowledge for adaptation, the Global Commission Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.
Previously, Alessandra worked on energy system modelling and techno-economic assessments at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. She was Environmental Affairs Officer at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, focusing on green and sustainable development in the continent. Alessandra has research experience in the field of climate change modelling, participatory approaches for science, and integrated water resource management.
Since 1999 Mr Campora has worked as a lawyer in the civil sector. He has worked as a Matteo Campora consultant for national trade unions, consumer associations, leading national companies Deputy Mayor for in the energy sector, companies operating in the real estate and facility sector and in the Environment, production sector. Municipality of He has worked as promoter and moderator of 1st and 2nd international Congress Genoa Condominium Management Entrepreneur and Social Development Opportunities (Sofia - BG 2014/15) 2015 Honors - Knight Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Effective Member "Regional Council for the protection of consumer and user rights" (Liguria Region) representing ANCI. .. From 2007 to 2012 Municipal Councilor from 2012 to 2017 Municipal Councilor and Vice President Council for Institutional Affairs Council From 2015 Effective Member "Regional Council for the protection of consumers 'and consumers' rights" (Liguria Region) representing ANCI. Since 2016 Vice President of the Ligurian Catholic Workers
Federation (FOCL) From 2017Assessor Civic Services, Environment, Waste Cycle from 2017 President Electrolytic Information Commission2015Onoreficenza – Knight Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy President of Consorzio Villa Serra.
Filipe Araújo is Porto’s Vice-Mayor and City Councillor for Innovation and Environment, Filipe Araujo Chairman of the Board of Directors of AdePorto (Porto’s Energy Agency), Chairman of the Deputy Mayor of Board of Directors of Porto Digital Association (supports the Porto City Council in the Environment and development of e-government projects and online services), board member of LIPOR – Innovation, City of Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto, Vice-Chair of Eurocities Environment Porto Forum, advisory board member of Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications, and advisory board member of MIL (Media Innovation Labs) of Porto University.
He has a degree in Electrical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto) and holds a M.Sc. in Telecommunications (UMIST – University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK). He was a guest Professor at the Faculty of Science of University of Porto, between 2007 and 2011 and a Municipal Deputy of Porto between 2005 and 2009. Other relevant executive functions include Service Manager in a telecommunication company and board member of the Youth Foundation.
Mayor of Torino since June 2016, she has served as Member of the City Council and as Vice Chiara Appendino Chairman of the Budget Committee of the City of Torino during the previous five years. Mayor of Turin Graduated in International Management and Economics, she also holds a Master in Management Audit and Planning, both earned at the University “Luigi Bocconi” in Milano. Born in 1984, she has been working for six years in her family’s firm as Financial Manager and previously she has been Controller in Juventus Football Club S.p.A.
Erion Veliaj was elected as the 42nd Mayor of Tirana in June 2015. Prior to his tenure, Veliaj Erion Veliaj served as a Member of Parliament of Albania and Minister of Social Welfare and Youth Mayor of Tirana from 2013 through 2015. At the time, he introduced sweeping reforms on pensions, welfare payments, employment opportunities and professional education. For the first time, Veliaj structured the Socialist Party’s branches in countries where the Albanian Diaspora resides and successfully contributed to the organization of the voting process of the Albanian immigrants in the 2013 elections. Before joining the ranks of the Socialist Party in 2011, Veliaj had a long experience as the leader and founder of the movement “MJAFT”, a civic organization which gained huge popularity for its novel methods of peaceful protest. Veliaj holds a Master’s degree in European Integration from the University of Sussex and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the Grand Valley State University.
Valentina Orioli, PhD and associate professor of Urban Planning at the Department of Valentina Orioli Architecture of the University of Bologna is Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Real Estate, Deputy Mayor for Environment, Preservation and Renewal of the Historical City at the Municipality of Urban Planning, Bologna. Her research activity focuses on policies and planning tools for cities, the reform Real Estate, of local government in Italy and on urban regeneration and sustainable urban design. She Environment, is vice president of “Urban@it”, a national Centre for urban policy studies comprising 14 Preservation and Italian universities and led by the University of Bologna. Redevelopment of the Historical City, City of Bologna
A Public Law graduate, Christel Kohler has been Deputy Mayor for Environment focusing Christel Kohler, particularly on nature and climate planning at the City of Strasbourg since 2014. She sits as Deputy Mayor for an Administrator in three companies dealing with questions on planning and energy. She the Environment, is also member of the Orientation and Surveillance Council of the Caisse d’Epargne Bank of City of Strasbourg Alsace.
Anna-Kaisa Heinämäki works as the Deputy Mayor of the City of Tampere in the Growth, Anna-Kaisa Innovation and Competitiveness sector for the term 2017-2021. In 2015, she already Heinämäki started as Deputy Mayor being responsible for the local business development, culture, Deputy Mayor for sports and secondary education. Growth, She is the Chair of the Housing and Real Estate Committee and Committee for Growth, Innovation and Innovation, and Competitiveness in the City of Tampere. She holds a Master of Social Competitiveness, Sciences (2006) and a Master of Sciences (2013) from the University of Tampere. City of Tampere She has been acting as an elected city councilor of Tampere since 2009. Since 2011, she has been the Vice member of the state parliament for the Green Party. From 2013 to 2015, she worked as a Chief Inspector at the Ministry of Interior and at the National Police Board specialising in security planning for urban areas and countering of violent radicalisation, hate crimes, and domestic violence.
Ilaria Segala has been Councillor for urban planning, programming of the removal of Ilaria Segala, architectural barriers, private and social housing and environment at the City of Verona Councillor for since 2017. urban planning, Holding a degree in construction engineering from the University of Padua, she started her programming of professional career as a freelancer at several architecture and engineering firms. Since the removal of 2006, she has occupied several positions at the Italian Order of Engineers as well. architectural barriers, private and social housing, environment, City of Verona
Agnes Schönfelder has been acting in public authorities at municipal and state level over Agnes 20 years, since 2009 as the Head of the Climate Change Strategy Office for the City of Schönfelder Mannheim in a cross-departmental function. Head of the In addition to her activities at the municipality, she has taken over the management of the Climate Change Climate Protection Agency Mannheim at the beginning of 2019 and will thus combine the Strategy Office, activities for the implementation of the local climate protection strategy MANNHEIM ON City of Mannheim CLIMATE TRACK city-wide. The climate protection and communication expert is a civil engineer by profession and has completed further studies in environmental and climate issues as well as a management consultant. Her main task is to develop climate strategies and to coordinate mitigation and adaptation projects.
Daniel Rees is Strategic Policy Adviser to the City of Oslo Vice Mayor for Environment and Daniel Rees Transport, Ms. Lan Marie Berg. He has been in the position since 2015. Climate change Strategic Policy policy is one of his primary interests and main responsibilities. He played a leading role in Adviser to the City developing Oslo’s climate budget. of Oslo Vice His background is in Political Science, and prior to his current position Mr. Rees worked as Mayor for a political adviser for the Green Party in Parliament. He was also one of the founders of Environment and the politically independent organization “Are they true to their words?” They use digital Transport tools to illustrate how political parties work together in Parliament and how faithful they are to their promises. Mr. Rees has broad experience in climate policy analysis both from the Norwegian School of Management and from Kantar TNS, and has worked as a freelance journalist for Norwegian media.
Session 2
Audrey Linkenheld is the Deputy Mayor for Social Mix and Innovation. She is also leading Audrey Linkenheld Lille’s bid to become European Green Capital. She has been Municipal Councillor in Councillor for charge of Lille’Housing Plan (2014-2017), Deputy Mayor in charge of housing and urban Diversity and Social rehabilitation (2008-2014) and Member of Parliament for the North department (2012- Innovation, in charge 2017). of the Green Capital She has been rapporteur at the National Assembly for the law on mobilizing public land Lille project and for housing and for reinforcing the legislation on social housing requirements for local former member of authorities, as well as for the law on housing access and new urbanism. French Parliament
Born in New York (USA) in 1968, Mr. Venturini graduated cum laude in Economics from Francesco Venturini the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy where he also served as assistant professor CEO of Enel X of Banking Strategies and Techniques during the academic year 1991-1992.
Mr. Venturini is a London Business School alumnus and in 2015 he has been awarded an MBA at the MIT Sloan Business School.
At the onset of his career Mr. Venturini served as Financial Controller for Elsag Bailey Process Automation, a Finmeccanica group company, taking part in its listing on the NYSE. He later became Chief Financial Officer for several companies of the Elsag Bailey Process Automation and Hartmann & Braun groups in both the United States and Brazil.
He joined the Enel Group in 1997 as Head of Administration and Management Control at Enel S.p.A., contributing to the company listing on the New York and Milan Stock Exchanges. Mr. Venturini later became Head of Internal Audit within Enel's Distribution and Market Division, and subsequently, Head of Sales Administration within the same division. In 2009, he was appointed Head of Finance in Enel Green Power. Afterwards, he worked at Enel Green Power North America, first taking on the role of Head of Business Development and later, in 2011, as Head of the North America Area. In May 2014, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Enel Green Power.
He was appointed Enel's Head of Global e-Solutions in May 2017 and CEO of Enel X in November 2017.
Session 3
Stefania Manca has a degree in Natural Science at University of Genoa, Master in Stefania Manca Geographic Information System and Master in Smart City - Planning and Territorial Technical Development. Since 2011, she has been working at the Municipality of Genoa. In 2013, Coordinator she started to coordinate the European Projects Office of the Municipality and 2018 she Partnership on has been in charge of developing the City Resilience Strategy connected to Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Development since 2018. From 2000 to 2011, she worked as a private actor strongly Change, Genoa involved in Urban and Environmental planning and ICT tools and services deployed at Municipality Local and Regional level.
Piero Pelizzaro is the Milan Chief Resilience Officer and the City Lead for the H2020 Piero Pelizzaro Lighthouse project “Sharing Cities” at the Municipality of Milan. He is an advisor of the Chief Resilience Italian Ministry of Environment Land and Sea on Urban Adaptation Policy to Climate Officer, City of Milan Change. In recent years, he was the Co-Founder of Climalia, a specialised consulting company providing climate services in Italy, where he operates as Resilience Specialist.
He is a member of the European Commission Mayors Adapt Practitioners Work Group and Member of FiRe 2016 Implementation Working Group at Climate Policy Initiative. He is member of the Advisory Board of the EU FP7 Ramses Project that aims to structure a cost\benefit analysis methodology for Urban Adaptation Plans.
He has extensive expertise in projects financed by the European Commission, including the LIFE+ project BlueAP Bologna Local Urban Environment Adaptation Plan for a Resilient City (Senior Expert), LIFE+ RECOIL Recovered waste cooking oil for combined heat and power production (Technical Director), MED Greenpartnerships as Senior Expert and MED ZeroCO2 Small communities for big changing.
He further specialised in Urban Resilience, Environmental Economic Accounting, Energy Scenario and Climate Change Impact Models through his working experience at the Stockholm Environment Institute – Tallinn Office. In past years he collaborated with EU MP, Umberto Guidoni. He writes for different specialised magazines and web-portals on climate change issues.
Former UNFCCC national expert and UNEP/MEDPOL liaison, involved in the Joanna Kiernicka- implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive and WWTP supervision, in charge Allavena of sustainable projects, programmes and strategies including the low carbon transition, Coordinator for adaptation to climate change and cities resilience. Liaison to international organisations Climate and and networks in the field of climate, energy and nature. Resilience, City of Wroclaw
Lina Liakou is Managing Director for Europe and the Middle East overseeing the “100 Lina Liakou Resilient Cities” partnership with the 21 cities across Europe and the Middle East in Managing Director, developing their resilience thinking through long term City Resilience Strategies and Europe & the Middle actionable initiatives. East, 100 Resilient Before joining 100RC, Lina was Deputy Mayor and Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Cities Thessaloniki, Greece. In this role, she led the development of the city’s Resilience Strategy in 2017. As a Deputy Mayor, Lina Liakou initiated collaborations with the European Commission, the EIB and the World Bank. Prior to this, Lina was chairman and managing director of the Metropolitan Development Agency of Thessaloniki, an intermunicipal company that coordinates national and international research projects.
Lina Liakou is an architect and urban designer from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and a Marshall Memorial Fellow (2015) of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Session 4A
Margaretha Breil is a Senior Researcher on urban sustainability and climate change Margaretha Breil adaptation in the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC) Venice (Italy). Expert Group Within CMCC, Margaretha focusses on the assessment and design of urban sustainable participant and co- adaptation policies. Supporting the EEA, she coordinates scientific input activities with author of EEA report regards to urban adaptation, including the redaction of the EEA report on urban on Social vulnerability adaptation (2016), and contributions to the EEA report on in equalities. She furthermore to climate change in works on NBS and on social issues of climate change adaptation in cities. Since 2019, she European cities is coordinating the INTERREG Italy-Croatia Project ADRIADAPT – a Resilience Information platform for cities in the Adriatic area.
Lena Blom Adjunct Professor Lena Blom, strategist and research and development manager, Gothenburg City department of sustainable waste and water. She is also an adjunct Research and professor in sustainable water and waste water systems at Chalmers University of development Technology. Her research and work are about sustainable drinking and waste water manager, City of systems with a broad perspective, focusing on decision support tools for complex Gothenburg decisions.
E.g. planning for water in the city expecting climate change is a huge challenge where
different stakeholders need to meet and understand each other to achieve adequate action. Another great challenge is how to finance the needed measures.
Lina Karlsson
Lina Karlsson works as a Project manager at Gothenburg City department for sustainable Project Manager, City of Gothenburg waste and water. Gothenburg is going through major redevelopment plans where large- scale flooding risk needs to be addressed. She works at implementing strategies for stormwater and climate adaption in development plans. Her specific interest is blue- green stormwater designs. She is also involved in projects for research and development in the field.
Filip Lefebre Filip Lefebre, holding a master’s degree in Physics with a Phd in climatology (2001), works at the Environmental Modelling division of VITO. His role is to link urban actors and to Project coordinator translate user needs into information products with the aim to creating sustainable for H2020 Climate- services. Filip is the project coordinator of the H2020 “Climate-fit.City” project and the Fit-City Copernicus C3S service contract “European Health” which also has a strong urban component.
Roberto De Ferrari Roberto De Ferrari, holding a master in Geology (2003), works at the Civil Protection Nicola Rebora department of the municipality of Genoa. His main role concerns the planning of activities and the application of advanced methods for the emergency management EU ANYWHERE operations. He works at implementing strategies aimed to consider climate changes in project coordinator, emergency plans. Municipality of Genoa He is the contact person for the Genoa municipality of the Horizon 2020 ANYWHERE project (http://anywhere-h2020.eu). The ultimate purpose of the ANYWHERE project is to empower exposed responder institutions and citizens to enhance their anticipation
and pro-active capacity of response to face extreme and high-impact weather and climate events.
Session 4B
Mihaela Coman
Coordinator for EU FLOOD serv project
Christiaan Norde Christiaan Norde works at the department of EU & International Affairs. He is coordinator of international activities in the area of sustainability and coordinates the cooperation Policy Advisor between Amsterdam and India. International Affairs, City of Amsterdam In his former job Christiaan was project leader of FP7 and Interreg programs on sustainable urban development and worked at the Secretariat of the European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN). At EUKN he worked on the New Urban Agenda of Habitat III and the Urban Agenda for the EU.
Mina Charnaux Mina Charnaux, “Nature in the city” project officer, works on the cooperative charter “All
united for more biodiversity” accompanying all the stakeholders to increase Project Officer, City of biodiversity on their lands. She manages the initiative “Strasbourg ça pousse”, allowing Strasbourg the citizens to garden the public space by opening the sidewalks, as well as the creation of various communication documents and events promoting urban biodiversity.
Session 4C
Jackie Homan
Cluster Lead for Climate-KIC UK and Ireland
Gonçalo Canto Moniz Gonçalo Canto Moniz is a researcher of the Cities, Cultures, and Architecture (CCArq) Research Group and was member of the Executive Board of the Centre for Social Studies Assistant Professor at of the University of Coimbra (2014-2017). In 1995, he graduated in Architecture at the University of Coimbra Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology at the University / Coordinator of Coimbra, where he currently works as Assistant Professor. He obtained his PhD degree URBiNAT H2020 in Architecture at the University of Coimbra in 2011, based on his academic thesis Project “Modern Architectural Education”.
Together with 28 international partners, he coordinates the European project URBiNAT "Healthy corridor as drivers of social housing neighbourhoods for the co-creation of social, environmental and marketable NBS" that is supported by H2020. He is researching and teaching about the reuse of modern buildings and its impact on the urban context in the framework of the European project "Reuse of Modernist Buildings", supported by Erasmus Plus. He participates in the national project "Atlas of school buildings in Portugal" (IST-UL) and also in (EU)ROPA - Rise of Portuguese Architecture (CES), supported by FCT.
Maarit Särkilahti M.Sc. (Tech. and Admin.) Maarit Särkilahti is a professional with 10 years of experience in water and waste management. Her fields of expertise include circular economy, Project Manager, especially nutrient recycling, and nature-based storm water management. Currently, she UNaLab project works as a project manager at the City of Tampere, Finland. In addition, she is finishing coordinator, City of her dissertation at Tampere University of Technology, Laboratory of Chemistry and Tampere Bioengineering. She studies sustainability transition in infrastructure sectors focusing on an interdisciplinary approach.
Session 5
Carla Stardolini
Department of City Marketing, City Promotion, Cultural activities, Municipality of Genoa
Henk Jansen
Senior Advisor
Heritage, City of Utrecht
Paola Letardi Paola Letardi has a degree in Physics and worked in the field of Material Science and Surface Spectroscopy, with particular interest in the development of methodologies and CNR-IAS (National instrumentation. She has been involved in national and international projects on Research Council - diagnostics and monitoring for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Her research is Institute for the Study focused on atmospheric corrosion in the marine environment and on specific of Anthropic Impacts applications of electrochemical and spectroscopic techniques in the field of artifacts of and Sustainability in historical interest. She is active in the ICOM-CC (International Council Of Museum- the Marine Conservation Committee) – Working Group “Metals” and referee for International Environment), Journals (Journal of Cultural Heritage; Studies in Conservation, Heritage Science). Municipality of Genoa As a personal interest she has been involved in projects and activities related to
solidarity-based economy, sustainability and active citizenship.
Suzanne Jameson
Head of Creative Economy and project coordinator for ROCK, City of Liverpool
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