Pacto Global da ONU - Cidades Sustentáveis e inovadoras Palestrante: Elizabeth Ryan

1. “Innovating Cities”
“Cidades Inovadores de Programa de
Cidades do Pacto Global da ONU”
Elizabeth Ryan, UNGCCP
Conferencia Internacional Cidades Inovadores,
Curitiba Brazil, Maio 2011.

2. The Cities Programme
The Cities Programme facilitates
collaboration between
government, business and civil society
to enhance sustainability, resilience,
diversity, and adaptation
within cities in the face of
complex urban challenges.

3. The UN Global Compact
The Cities Programme is the urban arm of the
United Nations Global Compact
• The UN Global Compact is the largest
corporate social responsibility initiative in the
world
• It has 7,000 signatories in 135 countries.
• 2000 are now non-business
At the first level with Cities Programme, City
mayors sign on to the UN Global Compact
principles

4. UN Global Compact Principles
Human Rights
• Principle 1: Support and respect for the protection of internationally proclaimed
human rights;
• Principle 2: Active rejection of human rights abuses.
Labour Standards
• Principle 3: Upholding of the freedom of association and effective recognition of
the right to collective bargaining;
• Principle 4: Support for the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory
labour;
• Principle 5: Upholding of the effective abolition of child labour;
• Principle 6: Support for the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment
and occupation.
Environment
• Principle 7: Support for a precautionary approach to environmental challenges:
• Principle 8: Undertaking to promote greater environmental responsibility;
• Principle 9: Encouragement of the development and diffusion of environmentally
friendly technologies.
Anti-Corruption
• Principle 10: Work against all forms of corruption, including extortion and bribery.

5. The Cities Programme
International Secretariat based in Melbourne,
Australia working with the New York office of
UN Global Compact
Model developed in Melbourne
used in all Innovating Cities
More than thirty signatory cities
Fourteen leading Innovating Cities

6. The Cities Programme
• Supported by corporate, education, NGO
partners -
– Accenture, Fuji Xerox, Microsoft, World Vision,
RMIT University
• Supports Cities with sustainability expertise -
systems, tools, facilitation, advice and
research
Global network between cities is in
development

7. World-leading Innovating
Cities
Three-year projects tackling seemingly
intractable problems
Model of multi-sector governance:
Government,
Corporate,
Civil society

8. Sustainability Framework
Innovating City projects:
Unique to each city
Locally developed and driven
Sustainability framework of social domains:
Economic,
Ecological,
Political,
Cultural

9. Innovating Cities
As-Salt, Jordan ― Urban Heritage
Asker, Norway ― Corruption
Berlin, Germany ― Health Care
Japshadpur, India ― Water Sustainability
Jinan, China ― Traffic Safety
Le Havre, France ― Sustainable Tourism
Melbourne, Australia ― Residential Resource-Use
Milwaukee, USA ― Water Sustainability
Porto Alegre, Brasil ― Slum Rehabilitation
Plock, Poland ― Sustainable Urban Development
San Francisco, USA ― Climate Change
Tshwane, South Africa ―Sustainable Industrial Change
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia ― Urban Development
tackling complex urban-sustainability
issues

10. Innovating City Case Study -
Milwaukee, USA

11. Context
• Milwaukee is located on the USA side of the
Great Lakes region - 25% of world’s fresh
water
• Economic base was traditional manufacturing
- now reduced
• Initial impetus for city collaboration was to
rebuild economic strength
• Initiated by Spirit of Milwaukee - Business
council

12. The Journey - Economic
1. Research of business community to identify
strength (consultants then University)
2. Eventually identified 150 businesses - water
products and services
3. Research academic expertise - discovered
large group of water scientists working for
40 years
4. Formed Milwaukee Water Council

13. Multi-sector team
• Corporate - Milwaukee Water Council
• Civil Society - University of Winconsin, Discovery World
• Government - Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage Council

14. Ecological
• Complex sewerage systems and management
• Domestic backfill in floods
• Changed lake environment - prize fish can’t live in Lake

15. Collaborating to manage Ecology
- government & civil & corporate
• Great Lakes Water
Institute
– Marine life
– Water quality
• Milwaukee Metropolitan
Sewerage Council
– Working with multiple
agencies to unify systems
& regulations
– With Water Council formed
Great Lakes Council,
incorporating 7 states and
territories (inc. 2 in
Canada)

16. Cultural - Discovery World
Discovery World - Philanthropic supported centre for
innovative experiential science and technology education

17. Community research
Social research
identified:
• Lack of
community value
for water
• Surprising lack
of connection
with water
• Lack of access
and use of the
lake in some
communities

18. Thirst
‘Thirst’ - community education and communication project

19. Urban Aquaculture
Sweet Water
Organics:
• Unused factory
• Model organic
system to grow fish
& vegetables in
urban settings
• Also social &
education program -
schools and
veterans

20. The Future:
Milwaukee - World Water Hub
• Sweet Water Organics • Water Centre in
receive $500,000 IBM development:
award: – 7 story, 100 year old
– through Milwaukee Water warehouse
Council – Business and water
– to take urban aquaculture researchers
model across world – Start up assistance for
• Milwaukee receives US water businesses
Water Prize • International Alliances:
– Singapore, France,
– Developing countries

21. Obrigada
UN Global Compact Cities Programme
www.citiesprogramme.org
Director, Professor Paul James
Manager, Elizabeth Ryan
+61 3 9925 3407
+61 425 773 359