towards the next decades of local action realising dreams meets rio+20 holger robrecht director...
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Towards the next decades of Local ActionRealising DReAMS meets Rio+20
Holger RobrechtDirector Sustainability ManagementICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
2nd Project Team Meeting Freiburg, 11 February 2011
• „Once upon a time …“When the cell-phone appeared• Preparing for the next 2 decades• After Hopenhagen
AfterHopenhagen
„Perhaps more than anywhere else, cities offer the opportunity to develop adaptation and mitigation win-win
ininitiatives. In the absence of decisive global policies on climate change, cities need to serve as centres of policy
ingenuity to drive real action.Yvo de Boer, former Exective Secretary, United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change
Climate Change Impacts
Source: UNEP, Climate in Peril
1900 1950 2000 2050
.7bn
.2bn
2.9bn
6.4bn
20103.5bn
70%
Source : Jeb Brugman / UN Wolrd Population Prospect 2006/2007
Overshoot Day 2010:
23. August
Quelle: Global Footprint Network
October 6, 2007September 23, 2008
„As of tomorrow, you‘ll be rationale again."Taken from: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 2009
Lead-up to Rio+20
• State of play with LA 21 and local sustainability• Position papers: Green Economoy, Int.
Environmental Governance, Global Framework for Local Sustainability• Case Studies• Web Portal• ‚Local Government summit‘
DReAMS meets Rio+20
• Local Stories of global responsibility (Rio + 20 Study, TEEB)• Advanced ecoBUDGET / PDMS• Tools• Briefing Note: Towards meeting MDG‘s• Advocacy: Planning impact – Newsletter,
Views, Conferences
DReAMS meets Rio+20
Can we do a commitment?
Realising DReAMS
Realising DReAMS
Avoiding Nightmares