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| Title: | Local Climate Solutions for Africa 2013 |
| When: | 30.10.2013 - 01.11.2013 |
| Location: | Tanzania |
| Description: | The Local Climate Solutions for Africa 2013 Congress: Africa transitioning: embracing urbanization, responding to change and harnessing opportunities Event venue: Kunduchi Beach Hotel, off Bagamaoyo Road | Kunduchi Beach, Dar es Salaam 1000, Tanzania When: 30 October – 1 November Who: leaders and technical officials from local government and their associations across Africa, technical experts and researchers, national governments, development partners, business, industry, NGO’s. Convened by: ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and Dar es Salaam City Council Currently the LOCS 2013 Congress is planned to take place in English. Funding is sought to offer French translations, and thereby ensuring LOCS 2013 truly reaches a pan-African audience. Should your company or organisation be interested in making support available towards translations, please contact the LOCS 2013 Secretariat at locs4africa@iclei.org Registration is now open: http://locs4africa.iclei.org/register-for-locs-2013/ Please ensure that you make use of the early bird registration opportunities. Latest endorsers and partners joining the LOCS 2013 platform include the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), STAR (Global change System for Analysis, Research & Training), SEA (Sustainable Energy Africa), and the Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV). Visit the daily programme overview here: http://locs4africa.iclei.org/daily-overview/ Background: Across Africa, urbanisation presents new and multiple development opportunities and challenges at the local level. Globally more than half of the world’s population resides in cities and urban areas, severely increasing pressure on essential services, infrastructure and natural systems which underpins economies and social well-being. Security and access issues pertaining to water, energy and food are projected to be exacerbated through climate change, most affecting the vulnerable within society. These challenges calls for innovative solutions – A transition in Africa towards embracing urbanization, responding to change and harnessing opportunities. The biennial Local Climate Solutions for Africa 2013 Congress series provides a unique and accessible platform for African local governments, their associations, national governments, scientists and experts, NGO’s, development partners and business to engage on the complex issues and innovative solutions related to urbanisation in Africa through the context of climate resilience. With its strategically cross-cutting and interlinked Congress themes, Local Climate Solutions for Africa 2013 will provide a key opportunity to strengthen the sharing of global good practice and locally appropriate solutions and technologies towards accelerated climate action on the ground. Congress themes will include a strong emphasis on local leadership, financing and accelerated integrated action at the local and sub-national level, underpinned by a special focus on integrated planning towards addressing climate resilience in Africa. LOCS for Africa 2013 is a unique platform for advancing new partnerships and consolidated local climate action on the continent for the global common good. The Congress series brings together a wide range of global and regional partners and programmes. Networks and institutions interested to partner in Local Climate Solutions for Africa 2013 are invited to contact the ICLEI Congress team. |
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