Climate Change and Urban Planning Workshop Rotterdam, 28-30 May 2009

1. Climate Change and Urban Planning Workshop
Rotterdam, 28-30 May 2009
Workshop Overview
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2. Background
• UN-HABITAT’s Cities and Climate Change
Initiative: Capacity Building Component includes
the development of a training tool for urban
planners
• CCCI also includes a University partnership
component
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3. Objectives
• Reach common understanding on how better urban planning
can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
• To agree on how best to equip urban planners to deal with
climate change.
• To reach a common understanding on how urban planning and
design schools can better address climate change as an
integral part of their curricula.
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4. Outcomes
• Urban Planners and climate change– continuing
professional development: Concrete
recommendations on tools and partnerships
• University/tertiary education (planning and climate
change): Concrete recommendations on
partnership (e.g. syllabus development in selected
universities, mainstreaming in curricula, regional
collaboration, partnerships)
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5. The Programme
• Session 1: CCCI – an overview
• Session 2:
• Keynote on CC and urban planning (continuous
education)
• Keynote on CC and tertiary urban planning
education
• Session 3:
• Mitigation Panel
• Adaptation Panel
• Integrated approaches panel
[presentations and panel discussion to identify
gaps]
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6. The Programme
• Session 4: CC and Urban Planning – gaps
[setting the scene for group work]
• Session 5 and 6 [parallel sessions]:
• Urban Planners (and related)
• University representatives
• Development of key recommendations
• Session 7: discussion of recommendations in
plenary
• Session 8: regional verification and adaptation
• Next steps
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7. Logistics
• Please let us have your presentations (word
document or ppt as soon as possible)
• The meeting will be held at IHS (today and
tomorrow) and at the Atlanata Hotel on Saturday
• Boat trip tonight: we leave from here, the boat will
drop us close to the hotel. This is a combined
study visit (Climate Initiative Rotterdam) and
reception
• Payment for lunch:
• Euro 20 per person per day
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