Learn How To Become Low-Carbon Cities Of The Future

Dailycsr.com – 06 July 2016 - "The Business Case for Sustainable Cities -- Making Urban Centers Inclusive, Safe and Resilient" extends an invitation for a webinar that is to take place on the 20^th of July 2016, at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
 
The big cities spread across the globe are ever increasing in size, whereby increasing social and environmental challenges as well as providing “dramatic progress” opportunities to fight the climate change. The Urban Centres’ plight received “No. 11” UN’s “sustainable development goal”. In an attempt to explore the topic the “Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business” in a partnership with 3BL Media is holding the webinar which is absolutely free to join.
 
The agenda of the webinar will explore various themes touching upon the “resilience and sustainability” of multiple cities situated on “every continent” so as to provide experts’ diverse perspective on the subject, whereby the webinar’s panel members include:

 
Moreover, Ethicalperformance informs:
“The rapid growth of cities in the developing world, coupled with increasing rural to urban migration, has led to a boom in mega-cities. In 1990, there were ten mega-cities with 10 million inhabitants or more. In 2014, there are 28 mega-cities, home to a total 453 million people, according to the United Nations”.
 
The ICLEI, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development along with the Global Cities Business Alliance will provide inputs in the webinar so as to show “how cities can contribute to a low-carbon future”. Non-profits, policy, business and academic professionals are recommended for the webinar’s content, while the authorities from the “corporate responsibility and sustainability” sectors can equally profit from it.
 
The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session, while the attendees are “encouraged to submit questions via the online platform”. There is a registration site for joining the webinar. Click here to Register today.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
References:
ethicalperformance.com