Join the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities' Building Efficiency Initiative and partners from various sectors for an exploration of the new report, "Accelerating Building Efficiency: Eight Actions for Urban Leaders." This research was produced in partnership with Johnson Controls and over a dozen other partners.
The report can be found at www.wri.org/buildingefficiency.
This comprehensive guidebook provides policy makers and other urban leaders a path forward to deliver better buildings, focusing on 8 specific recommendations to help decision makers overcome market failures and promote transformative change on building efficiency.
Agenda:
• Intro to report – Jennifer Layke and/or Eric Mackres, WRI
• City perspective –Elizabeth Babcock, City and County of Denver and Katrina Managan, IMT
• Building owner/developer perspective – Helen Gurfel, Executive Director, Greenprint, Urban Land Institute
• Private sector/service provider perspective – Clay Nesler, Johnson Controls
• Questions & Answers
Maps & Data
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TheCityFix Brasil, the blog of WRI Brasil Sustainable Cities, is celebrating its 5th anniversary of covering sustainable cities.
Somik Lall is a Lead Economist and Program Lead for Urban Development Analytics in Africa for the World Bank. He is a recognized expert on development policy related to urban and territorial competitiveness, agglomeration and clusters, infrastructure, and impact evaluation, with over 17 years’ global experience, most notably in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
This interview was part of our Cities Research Seminar Series.
Arturo Ardila-Gomez is Global Lead for Urban Mobility and a Lead Transport Economist and in the World Bank’s Transport and ICT Global Practice. He oversees a portfolio of transport projects and research activities in China, Mongolia, and Ecuador, and provides overall technical support to the East Asia transport portfolio in particular Vietnam. He is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and two books. His most recent book is “Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway: Capital, Operations and Maintenance Financing,” released in January 2016 in the World Bank Study series.
This interview was part of our Cities Research Seminar Series.
Annette Kim is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California’s Price School of Public Policy. She also directs SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Laboratory, that advances the visualization of the social sciences for public service. Her research experiments with critical cartography and spatial ethnography to re-conceptualize contemporary urbanism and find more inclusive and humane ways to design and govern the 21st century city.
This interview was part of our Cities Research Seminar Series.
Dr. David Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization. He is also a visiting Professor at University College London. Most of his work has been on poverty reduction in urban areas in Africa, Asia and Latin America, undertaken with local teams. He has a particular interest in the work and influence of organizations and federations of slum/shack dwellers.
This interview was part of our Cities Research Seminar Series.
Shlomo (Solly) Angel is a Professor of City Planning at the NYU Stern Urbanization Project, located within the Stern School of Business and the Marron Institute of Urban Management of New York University. He is now leading the NYU Urban Expansion Program there. The primary mission of the Program is to lend assistance to the municipalities of rapidly growing cities in making room for their inevitable expansion, making realistic projections of the future land needs as well as minimum necessary preparations for accommodating the growth of their populations in an orderly and sustainable manner, ensuring that land remains plentiful and affordable. The secondary mission of the NYU Urban Expansion Program is to gain a better understanding of urban expansion the world over by monitoring it in the entire universe of the 4,250 cities and metropolitan areas that had 100,000 people or more in 2010, and by collecting and analyzing evidence on the quantity of land required for urban expansion, on its physical organization and its affordability, and on the forces affecting it in a stratified global sample of 200 of these cities.
This interview was part of our Cities Research Seminar Series.
Jenna Davis is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering & Science, and the Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute of the Environment, both of Stanford University. With a background in public health, infrastructure planning, and environmental engineering, she is the faculty lead of Stanford’s Program on Water, Health & Development.
This interview was part of our Cities Research Seminar Series.
Dr. Robert McDonald is Lead Scientist for the Global Cities program at The Nature Conservancy. He researches the impact and dependences of cities on the natural world, and help direct the science behind much of the Conservancy’s urban conservation work.
This interview was part of our Cities Research Seminar Series.
The presentation focuses on how community driven city-wide slum upgrading and housing development is an important process in solving urban poverty, slums growth, illegal squatting, inequality and unhealthy living conditions on a big scale. The highlight of the talk is on community driven development and how it fosters establishment of strong community organizations and networks which proactively lead to building better partnerships with city authorities and relevant development organizations.
This presentation is part of our WRR Cities Seminar Series. For more information on the World Resources Report on Cities, click here.