Addressing Climate Change in Cities: Integrated concepts and strategies for local development

first presentation slide "Przeciwdziałanie zmianom klimatu w mieście: zintegrowane koncepcje i strategie rozwoju lokalnego"

Addressing Climate Change in Cities: Integrated concepts and strategies for local development

Presentation: Lecture
Date: 15 January 2023
Location: online
Lecture: Ewa Iwaszuk

On 15 January 2023 Ewa Iwaszuk gave a lecture titled "Addressing climate change in cities: integrated concepts and strategies for local development" to the students of Intercollegiate Academy of Climate (Międzyuczelniana Akademia Klimatu), a post-graduate diploma course jointly run by three universities in Poland (Warsaw School of Economics, AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, University of Wrocław).

Ewa’s lecture presented key steps and elements that need to be considered by local governments when developing climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. It also presented a landscape of local governance instruments that can be developed and implemented to support integrated planning, cross-sectoral cooperation, participation of citizens and sustainable implementation of such strategies.

The lecture also presented how such an integrated landscape of policy and governance instruments can work together in practice by presenting the example of Berlin and the various strategic, knowledge, financial and cooperative instruments that the city implemented to create a coherent governance framework for climate adaptation.
The lecture, delivered in Polish, formed part of the inaugural edition of the Intercollegiate Academy of Climate.

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Ewa Iwaszuk

Fellow

Green Synergies in Local Governments

20 March 2024
Ewa Iwaszuk

Event:Conference

As a proud partner of the Nature of Cities Festival 2024, we cordially invite you to be part of an extraordinary three-week event that focuses on the importance and beauty of urban nature. This multifaceted festival offers a wide range of activities both online and in person - from inspiring discussions to collaborative workshops that allow participants from all over the world to actively engage at any time.

The Nature of Cities Festival 2024

15 April - 7 June 2024
virtual and Berlin, Germany

Event:Conference

The EU-funded INTERLACE project is organizing a conference on urban ecosystem restoration in Europe and Latin America. The event will focus on nature-based solutions, including urban ecosystem restoration, climate change, and pollution. It will include interactive sessions, workshops, expert inputs, and site visits to showcase successful implementations of these solutions. The conference aims to foster collaborative research and knowledge-creation.

Reimagining Urban Spaces

Nature-Based Solutions for Inclusive Transformations in Europe and Latin America

2 - 3 October 2024
Granollers, Spain

Presentation:Speech

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are widely recognized for their potential to transform urban spaces into sustainable and environmentally friendly environments. Yet open questions remain around how this can be done in practice, what role different stakeholders can play, and what key challenges and opportunities exist. These topics were explored in the science-policy symposium "Regreening Cities with Nature-based solutions in EU and China – Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice". Ecologic Institute's McKenna Davis presented insights from the INTERLACE project on a panel in the session "Enabling Transformation in Urban areas with Nature Based Solutions".

Enabling Transformation in Urban Areas with Nature-based Solutions

28 November 2023
McKenna Davis

Presentation:Chairing

A Cities Talk Nature Global Engagement Event was organized as part of the INTERLACE project in Envigado, Colombia and streamed online on 23 and 24 November 2023 to explore these topics in more depth. Entitled ‘Rethinking urban-rural linkages for people and biodiversity’, the conference convened over 100 municipal actors and practitioners from Europe and Latin America interested in harnessing the potential of NBS in their cities and regions. Co-organised by UCLG, Humboldt Institute Colombia and Ecologic Institute, the event featured diverse formats, including field visits, practical workshops, and peer-to-peer discussions.

Urban-Rural Linkages and Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) for Sustainable Development

23 - 24 November 2023
McKenna Davis

Publication:Infographic

The INTERLACE Urban Governance Atlas was launched in 2023. It invites political decision-makers, urban planners, researchers, civil society organizations, and all interested parties to delve into the success stories of 250 political instruments from 41 countries. These instruments support nature-based solutions and tools for ecosystem restoration. The Atlas aims to showcase what has made them successful, the lessons learned in their design and implementation, and the governance approaches they employ. Developed by the Ecologic Institute, the infographic provides a clear overview of what the Urban Governance Atlas is and who can benefit from it.

Urban Governance Atlas

Year 2023

Presentation:Speech

At the occasion of the 10th Anniversary Edition of the European Urban Resilience Forum, Ecologic Institute's Doris Knoblauch gave two presentations, showcasing insights both of the CLEVER Cities project as well as the INTERLACE project.

Participation is Key – at the right time

18 - 20 October 2023
Doris Knoblauch

Presentation:Panel discussion

As part of the Future Leaders' Global Policy Forum from 22 to 23 May 2023 in Milan, Benedict Bueb, Researcher at Ecologic Institute, took part in a panel discussion on tackling the climate crisis and its impacts. He was joined on the panel by Abla Abdel Latif, Director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) and Nicola Monti, CEO of Edison. Keynote speeches by Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vera Songwe, Co-Chair of the High Level Panel on Climate Finance of the World Economic Forum (WEF) completed the panel.

The Role of Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation

23 May 2023
Benedict Bueb

Presentation:Speech

Social media card of the workshop hybrid workshop entitled "Making people part of ecosystem restoration in Europe".

Ecosystem restoration is gaining momentum in science and policy as a process that can jointly tackle biodiversity loss, climate change and other societal challenges. The human and social dimensions of restoration projects however, often insufficiently considered. The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) hosted a hybrid workshop entitled Making people part of ecosystem restoration in Europe from 17 to 19 October 2023 to explore this topic. McKenna Davis, Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute, held a keynote presentation on "Creating enabling conditions for ecosystem restoration: Tools and guidelines for local impact".

Creating Enabling Conditions for Ecosystem Restoration

17 October 2023
McKenna Davis

Organizer: Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Poland

AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH), Poland

University of Wrocław (UWr), Poland
Lecture: Ewa Iwaszuk
Date: 15 January 2023
Location: online
Language: Polish
Project: International Cooperation to Restore and Connect Urban Environments in Latin America and Europe (INTERLACE)
Project ID: 33001
Keywords: Adaptation

Cities

Climate

Education

Governance

Nature-based Solutions and Green Infrastructure

sustainable urban development, local climate strategies, climate adaptation, climate mitigation, local governance, urban governance, policy instruments, participation, co-creation

Presentation slides

lecture-2023-addressing-climate-change-in-cities.pdf (5.16 MB)

Further Links

EventVisitors ProgramAddressing Climate Change in Cities: Berlin study tour for Polish NBS and local government experts

A group of polish local government experts, landscape planners, architects and engineers participated in a study tour on nature-based solutions in Berlin on 25 and 26 August 2020, which was part of the EUKI project "Climate NBS Poland". Nature-based solutions (NBS) can... Read more

Visitors Program:Addressing Climate Change in Cities: Berlin study tour for Polish NBS and local government experts

Date: 25 - 26 August 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany

PublicationBookAddressing Climate Change in Cities – Catalogue of urban nature-based solutions

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are solutions that are inspired and supported by nature. They can be used in urban settings to complement or replace "traditional" or "grey" solutions to perform functions, such as thermal insulation and stormwater retention and filtration.... Read more

English version: Iwaszuk, E., Rudik, G., Duin, L., Mederake, L., Davis, M., Naumann, S., Wagner, I., 2019: Addressing Climate Change in Cities. Catalogue of Urban Nature-Based Solutions. Ecologic Institute, the Sendzimir Foundation: Berlin, Krakow.

Polish version: Iwaszuk, E., Rudik, G., Duin, L., Mederake, L., Davis, M., Naumann, S., Wagner, I., 2019: Błękitno-zielona
infrastruktura dla łagodzenia zmian klimatu w miastach. Katalog techniczny. Ecologic Institute, Fundacja Sendzimira: Berlin, Krakow.

PublicationReportAddressing Climate Change in Cities – Policy Instruments to Promote Urban Nature-based Solutions

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are solutions that are inspired and supported by nature. They can be used in urban settings to complement or replace "traditional" or "grey" solutions to social and environmental challenges, such as air pollution, the heat island effect,... Read more

Naumann, S., Davis, M., Iwaszuk, E., Freundt, M., Mederake, L., 2020: Addressing climate change in cities – Policy instruments to promote urban nature-based solutions. Ecologic Institute, the Sendzimir Foundation: Berlin, Krakow.

Naumann, S., Davis, M., Iwaszuk, E., Freundt, M., Mederake, L., 2020: Błękitno-zielona infrastruktura dla łagodzenia zmian klimatu w miastach. Narzędzia strategiczne. Ecologic Institute, Fundacja Sendzimira: Berlin, Krakow.

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