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Cities Climate Action Summit

Roundtables at Cities Climate Action Summit

During the Cities Climate Action Summit (26-27 June), we will be running a number of roundtable sessions. These will be closed groups allowing up to 15 delegates to discuss the topics of the day. We’ll cover Climate Tech, Mobility Transformation, Energy Transition, Built Environment and more..More

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OnDemand Panel discussion: The role of data in environmental monitoring

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

A range of cities and technologists explain how they’re using data to inform climate action plans and projects, as well as monitor and track progress.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Breaking down siloes to integrate policy goals across city departments and authorities

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Bringing together players from across the city ecosystem, including IT, mobility and resilience, an expert panel delves into approaches to city-wide collaboration, information sharing, and partnerships that support a top-down, holistic approach to climate action.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Access to data and monitoring to drive climate action plans

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

An expert panel demonstrates the key technologies being implemented on city streets to capture climate-related data, explaining how it is analysed and the level of insights they can take from it to help shape climate action plans.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Understanding today's urban greentech market

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

A panel of technologists, cities and institutes discuss the common climate action goals that are driving the direction of technology innovation in cities, and the next step for greentech.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Breaking down the barriers to net zero

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

A panel from across cities, NGOs and institutions break down the most common barriers standing in the way of achieving net zero.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Transition to renewables

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

A panel of energy experts join together to discuss the ongoing transition to renewables, where to concentrate focus in the short term, and finding solutions across cities that are bespoke and community appropriate.

OnDemand State of the Nation Address: The UK's bid to tackle the climate emergency

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Jason Torrance, CEO of UK100, details the efforts of UK local authorities to create cleaner, greener communities.

OnDemand Keynote: Delivering climate action at scale

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Environment for the Greater London Authority, details the steps to achieving scalable climate action solutions and explains how they should filter down through different levels and scales of government.

OnDemand Case study: Getting to know CReDo and climate digital twins

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Sarah Hayes, Lead on the Climate Resilience Demonstrator project (CReDo), introduces the project and discusses the role for digital twins in urban resilience work.

OnDemand Case study: Harnessing smart city technologies to catalyse decarbonisation

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Catherine Auld, Assistant Director of Economic Regeneration at Sunderland City Council, illustrates the way the council’s smart city work has helped inform its green agenda.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Funding climate plans via public-private partnerships

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Authorities and finance groups come together to demonstrate the value of their public-private partnerships in funding climate action, and explain how these models can be replicated for broader climate action around the world.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Prioritising the challenges of building resilience

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

A panel of resilience experts delve into the core challenges of building climate resilience and what city leaders can do to overcome them, keeping equity, budget and community front of mind.

OnDemand Fireside chat: Technology's role in combatting climate change

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Jung Sook Park, Secretary General at World Smart Sustainable Cities Organisation (WeGO), explains how technology partnerships are helping push climate action in cities forward.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Climate financing and creating bankable projects

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

A group of financial experts assess how cities and regions are creating more bankable climate and environmental projects, providing their advice on demonstrating clear ROI for private investors beyond ESG responsibilities.

OnDemand Panel discussion: What commitments and assistance are cities looking for from central government?

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

City representatives and NGOs combine to discuss the existing financial and political support available to cities as they combat climate change, work out what’s still missing.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Building climate action around adaptation

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

An expert panel discuss their approaches to and benefits of climate adaptation in the face of a constantly shifting situation, and argue whether the time for climate mitigation strategies has passed.

OnDemand Case study: The intersection of sustainability and smart tech in Coral Gables

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Matt Anderson, Assistant Director - Mobility and Sustainability, City of Coral Gables, explains how the city is progressing through its climate action agenda.

OnDemand Fireside chat: Getting to grips with hydrogen for green transit

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Kirt Conrad, CEO of SARTA, talks through how and where to get started with hydrogen for clean public transit, and how the technology is becoming more feasible for even smaller transit agencies and cities.

OnDemand Fireside chat: Overcoming extreme heat in Phoenix

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Kate Gallego, Mayor of the City of Phoenix, explains the challenges involved in making a desert community sustainable for the long term amid extreme heat and drought.

OnDemand Case study: Turning Tallinn into a testbed for environmental sustainability

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Mark-Emil Talivere, Innovation Expert for the City of Tallinn, explains how the city’s ’Test in Tallinn’ programme can support the development of real-world climate solutions in a living lab scenario.

OnDemand Keynote: Greg Clark, Chair, Connected Places Catapult & 3Ci

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Professor Greg Clark CBE, Chair at Connected Places Catapult and 3Ci, explains the approach the Cities Climate Investment Commission (3Ci) is taking to get climate projects off the ground across the UK.

OnDemand Keynote: Sally Capp, Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Sally Capp, Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne, explains how the city has developed its route to a green economy while keeping citizens engaged and informed along the way.

OnDemand Keynote: Mami Mizutori, Assistant Secretary General, United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Mami Mizutori, Assistant Secretary General, United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), explains the role of effective policy development, technology rollouts and financing to successfully combat climate change in cities.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Progress and next steps on current climate action plans

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

An update from an expert panel of cities and NGOs on how cities are progressing their climate action plans, what the next steps are, and how they’re driving forward by using data to monitor, gather insight, and take action.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Engaging the community on climate action

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

An expert panel representing global cities and NGOs provide insight into how to engage communities on climate action, the impact it can have on citywide climate metrics, and how to build equity into the approach.

Cities Climate Action Summit On-Demand

Welcome to the Cities Climate Action Summit 2023 On Demand. The inaugural Summit brought together city practitioners, leaders and topic area experts from across the globe to assess the status quo and highlight practical steps forward in three key areas: policy development, climate financing, and technology development. Here, you can gain access to every keynote, discussion and case study hosted during the Summit, with all content divided into its respective key topic area, as seen below.

To do so, the first thing you’ll need is a SmartCitiesWorld membership, which you can sign up for here.

After this, follow the instructions within any of the content below to quickly and easily purchase your pass to access all Summit content.

Policy development

Effective discussion and development of key policy areas is critical to mitigating and adapting to the effects of the changing climate. Below, you’ll find the keynotes, discussions and case studies from the Cities Climate Action Summit that deal with how to responsibly develop policy for the short and long-term in order to create sustainable urban environments with liveability and equity at their centre.

OnDemand Fireside chat: Overcoming extreme heat in Phoenix

Kate Gallego, Mayor of the City of Phoenix, explains the challenges involved in making a desert community sustainable for the long term amid extreme heat and drought.

OnDemand Keynote: Delivering climate action at scale

Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Environment for the Greater London Authority, details the steps to achieving scalable climate action solutions and explains how they should filter down through different levels and scales of government.

OnDemand Keynote: Mami Mizutori, Assistant Secretary General, United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction

Mami Mizutori, Assistant Secretary General, United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), explains the role of effective policy development, technology rollouts and financing to successfully combat climate change in cities.

OnDemand Keynote: Sally Capp, Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne

Sally Capp, Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne, explains how the city has developed its route to a green economy while keeping citizens engaged and informed along the way.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Breaking down siloes to integrate policy goals across city departments and authorities

Bringing together players from across the city ecosystem, including IT, mobility and resilience, an expert panel delves into approaches to city-wide collaboration, information sharing, and partnerships that support a top-down, holistic approach to climate action.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Building climate action around adaptation

An expert panel discuss their approaches to and benefits of climate adaptation in the face of a constantly shifting situation, and argue whether the time for climate mitigation strategies has passed.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Engaging the community on climate action

An expert panel representing global cities and NGOs provide insight into how to engage communities on climate action, the impact it can have on citywide climate metrics, and how to build equity into the approach.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Progress and next steps on current climate action plans

An update from an expert panel of cities and NGOs on how cities are progressing their climate action plans, what the next steps are, and how they’re driving forward by using data to monitor, gather insight, and take action.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Transition to renewables

A panel of energy experts join together to discuss the ongoing transition to renewables, where to concentrate focus in the short term, and finding solutions across cities that are bespoke and community appropriate.

OnDemand State of the Nation Address: The UK's bid to tackle the climate emergency

Jason Torrance, CEO of UK100, details the efforts of UK local authorities to create cleaner, greener communities.

Climate financing

The Cities Climate Action Summit 2023 demonstrated that if there is one common factor in cities’ and regions’ fight against climate change, a lack of sustainable and long-term funding and investment is it. The sessions here explore how that trend can be reversed, the work being done by cities, NGOs and the private sector to support net-zero goals, and how resilience factors into green finance.

OnDemand Keynote: Greg Clark, Chair, Connected Places Catapult & 3Ci

Professor Greg Clark CBE, Chair at Connected Places Catapult and 3Ci, explains the approach the Cities Climate Investment Commission (3Ci) is taking to get climate projects off the ground across the UK.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Breaking down the barriers to net zero

A panel from across cities, NGOs and institutions break down the most common barriers standing in the way of achieving net zero.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Climate financing and creating bankable projects

A group of financial experts assess how cities and regions are creating more bankable climate and environmental projects, providing their advice on demonstrating clear ROI for private investors beyond ESG responsibilities.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Funding climate plans via public-private partnerships

Authorities and finance groups come together to demonstrate the value of their public-private partnerships in funding climate action, and explain how these models can be replicated for broader climate action around the world.

OnDemand Panel discussion: Prioritising the challenges of building resilience

A panel of resilience experts delve into the core challenges of building climate resilience and what city leaders can do to overcome them, keeping equity, budget and community front of mind.

OnDemand Panel discussion: What commitments and assistance are cities looking for from central government?

City representatives and NGOs combine to discuss the existing financial and political support available to cities as they combat climate change, work out what’s still missing.

Technology deployment

Technology, from sensors to data analytics, has a crucial and growing part to play in cities’ work to manage climate change. Here, the Cities Climate Action Summit brought together experts to delve into how environmental monitoring, and the subsequent data insights from those efforts, are helping to shape and inform environmental action at scale.