Sustainable City Finance
Thursday, January 7, 2010
A green economy must be environmentally and monetarily sustainable. Paying for green technologies, jobs, buildings, cars, and infrastructure will require innovations in how we see, use and exchange money and credit. A dual crisis -- of the environment and of the banking system -- provides us with a 'magic moment': to enable sustainability in cities and regions, plus provide adequate financing for those local governments to utilize new technologies and transition to a cleaner and greener urban age.
Sustainable cities are home to green consumers, triple bottom line green businesses, entrepreneurial nonprofits and government agencies. Financing for the best initiatives is delayed and inadequate. Unconnected pieces and spigots left over from the carbon-based economy are corrosive legacies, and their investment practices do not suit the sustainable city's financial needs. We must think anew about credit, money, banking, ratings and investment.
"Sustainable City Finance" will gather thought leaders and pioneers who are working to implement solutions, to share their views of what exists, what is needed, and how sustainable cities can best leverage the reform of banking and credit markets.
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Agenda
January 6, 2010 | |
| 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM | PRE-CONFERENCE RECEPTION |
January 7, 2010 | |
| 8:00 AM | REGISTRATION and BREAKFAST |
| 9:00 AM | WELCOME OPENING REMARKS |
SESSION I: Sustainable Urban Lifelines in the 21st Century: Global South and Global NorthModerator: Nancy Rutledge Connery, NextGen Infrastructure | |
| 9:15 AM | Michael Singer, Michael Singer Studio |
| 10:00 AM | Big Picture: Responding to Global Urban Development Trends |
SESSION II: The Sustainable City in the Sustainable RegionModerator: Armando Carbonell, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | |
| 10:20 AM | Rohit T. Aggarwala, Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, City of New York |
| 11:10 AM | Coffee Break |
THREE BREAKOUT SESSIONS | |
| 11:30 AM | Breakout #1 - Sustainable City Finance: How it Works on the Ground–Case Studies Breakout #2 - Transforming Cities - Different Approaches in Different Cities Breakout #3 - Urban Mobility: Much More than Cleaner and Greener |
| 12:20 PM | LUNCH |
SESSION III: A Low Carbon Marketplace: Risks and NeedsModerator: Vickie A. Tillman, McGraw-Hill Companies | |
| 1:20 PM | Michael Wilkins, Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (United Kingdom) |
SESSION IV: Financing Mechanisms that WorkModerator: Robert Buckley, The Rockefeller Foundation | |
| 2:20 PM | Eduardo Rojas, Inter-American Development Bank |
SESSION V: New Angles on Old Problems: How Will More Money Flow?Moderator: Peter J. Miscovich, Jones Lang LaSalle | |
| 3:15 PM | Gordon McLaren, ESEP Ltd (Scotland) |
SESSION VI: Private Sector and Global Organizations as Key PartnersModerator: Nicholas You, Office of the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT (Kenya) | |
| 4:00 PM | Harry Verhaar, Philips Lighting B.V. (The Netherlands) |
CLOSING SESSION: Beyond Smart Cities | |
| 5:00 PM | Ian T. Brown, Gallup Institute for Global Cities |
| 5:45 PM | RECEPTION |
Speakers
Organizer
Gordon Feller
Urban Age Institute
Speakers
Rohit T. Aggarwala
Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, City of New York
Albert F. Appleton
Former Chief of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection
Harvey M. Bernstein
McGraw-Hill Construction
Somsook Boonyabancha
Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (Thailand)
Ian T. Brown
Gallup Institute for Global Cities
Nicolas Buchoud
Urban Development in the Office of the President of Ile de France
Robert Buckley
The Rockefeller Foundation
Barry H. Caldwell
Waste Management, Inc.
Tim E.J. Campbell
Urban Age Institute
Armando Carbonell
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Andrew Carman
Siemens Financial Services, Inc.
Nancy Rutledge Connery
NextGen Infrastructure
Manoel Antonio A. A. Da Silva
ARCADIS Logos Ltda. (Brasil)
Ron Dembo
Zerofootprint (Canada)
Steven Dreyer
Standard and Poor's
Brian English
CHF International (India)
Pegeen Hanrahan
Mayor of Gainesville, Florida
Jack D. Hidary
SmartTransportation.org; Jack D. Hidary Foundation
Abha Joshi-Ghani
The World Bank Group
Shankar Raj Kandel
Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office (Nepal)
Gary Lawrence
Ove Arup
Gordon McLaren
ESEP Ltd (Scotland)
Peter J. Miscovich
Jones Lang LaSalle
Peter V. Murphy
Standard and Poor's Ratings Services
Jan Olbrycht
European Parliament -URBAN Intergroup (Belgium)
Thierry Paulais
Cities Alliance
Neal Peirce
Citistates Group; Washington Post Writer's Group
Yan Peng
Clean Air Initiative Asia Center (People's Republic of China)
Seth W. Pinsky
NYC Economic Development Corporation
Sophie Sabine Punte
Clean Air Initiative Asia Center (Philippines)
Bill Reinert
Toyota Motor Sales, USA
Eduardo Rojas
Inter-American Development Bank
Jonathan F.P. Rose
Jonathan Rose Companies
Michael Serafino
Zipcar, Inc.
Michael Singer
Michael Singer Studio
E. Sarah Slaughter
MIT Sloan School of Management
Vickie A. Tillman
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Helcio Tokeshi
Estruturadora Brasileira de Projetos, S.A. - EBP (Brasil)
Keshav Saran Varma
The World Bank
Harry Verhaar
Philips Lighting B.V. (The Netherlands)
Sheila Watson
FIA Foundation (United Kingdom)
Michael Wilkins
Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (United Kingdom)
Thomas Wright
Regional Plan Association
Robert D. Yaro
Regional Plan Association
Nicholas You
Office of the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT (Kenya)
Susan Zielinski
University of Michigan SMART Program
Sponsors
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