Day #5 - 3 December 2010: ICLEI side event
The day ended with a well attended ICLEI Side event. In a panel discussion moderated by Clr Cathy Oke from Melbourne, key speakers presented the reasons why LGs should be recognized and key examples that showcase the many innovative actions they have initiated. The Governor of Quintana Roo, Félx González Canto kindly made the welcome speech and LG international partners, UN ISRD, UN-Habitat, OECD, IADB, expressed their support to LGs based on different initiatives.
The panel discussion brought to the same table: David Cadman, Clr of Vancouver and ICLEI President, Martha Delgado, Secretary for Environment of Mexico City and ICLEI Vice-President, Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard, Vice Mayor for Environment of Copenhagen, Ronan Dantec, Vice Mayor of Nantes and UCLG Climate Spokesperson, Patrick Hays, Mayor of North Little Rock, and Yuko Nishida from Tokyo.
You can follow their recorded interventions below and by clicking the names.
The side event was preceeded by a meeting between the Danish Minster for Climate and Energy, Lykke Friis, President of COP15, and local government delegates from Europe, America and Australia. Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard, Mayor of the Technical and Environmental Administration, City of Copenhagen, conducted the first statement on behalf of the LGMA, ../fileadmin/template/project_templates/climate-roadmap/files/COP16/Daily_Report/Speaking_notes_Bo_Asmus_Kjeldgaard.pdfdelivering the message that nations should take the opportunity to walk the talk together with local governments. To facilitate the local-national dialogue and cooperation in the UNFCCC process Mr. Kjeldgaard invited the UN-Troika, consisting of Denmark, Mexico and South Africa, to meet the 'Troika of Mayors' - Mayor Ebrad from Mexico-City, Mayor Mlaba from Durban and himself - in June 2011 in Bonn. In the open exchange, Ms. Friis expressed her appreciation of local government climate action and congratulated the representatives to follow Elvis' principle: A little less conversation, a little more action. She welcomed the local commitment and assured the LG representatives to discuss the issue of a more intensified role for local authorities within the international climate process with the UN-Troika.
You can watch a short interview the Gino Van Begin, deputy secretary general of ICLEI made to Minister Friis here.
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