Tag: Rio+20

The newly launched C40.org platform – featuring innovative, rich web-based technologies – is just part of our vision to strengthen the ability of the network of C40 Cities to communicate and broadcast the important work of cities around the world. In this spirit, we would like to invite you to join us tomorrow, June 19th for Rio+C40: Megacity Mayors Taking Action on Climate Change via a full-day, live webcast on www.C40.org via Ustream.

At the C40 Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo last year, the C40 Steering Committee drafted a communiqué to highlight for participants of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development the increasingly important role cities play in adapting to and mitigating the impacts of climate change. A related document was formally submitted to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development on November 1, 2011.

C40 Chair New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes will host mayors from the world’s largest cities – the C40 Cities – for Rio + C40: Megacity Mayors Taking Action on Climate Change in conjunction with the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, on Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Below you will find the agenda, to date.

C40-CCI City Director in Rio de Janeiro gives us a first-hand view into the considerable and exciting activity happening on the ground in Rio in the count-down to Rio+20

With just eight days until the Rio+20 Earth Summit commences, C40, leaders, and sustainability groups across the globe are busy preparing this historic event.