
The Green Deal and the Nordic Capitals: Urban solutions to climate, nature, and biodiversity challenges
- Ingvild Jacobsen
- 07/10/2020 - 10:00
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Working Group
Join us for our #EUGreenWeek Partner Event
The Nordic countries are known for their green cities, full of accessible green and blue spaces, surrounded by agricultural land, vast forests and lakes.
Nordic leaders fully support a European Carbon Neutrality target for 2050, and prioritise collaboration, especially regarding innovations that can be scaled up to global impact.
This event will share best practices and challenges from the Nordic capitals on how to integrate urbanism with care for biodiversity, nature, climate and circularity.
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Target group: Cities, decision makers, EU policy makers, NGOs, research institutions etc.
A link will be sent to registered participants within a day before the digital event.
Please direct any questions to: ingvild@osloregion.org
Register here for the event.
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Agenda
10.00 Welcome by moderator Louise Coffineau, policy adviser environment and climate at Eurocities
10.10 Keynote by Benjamin Caspar, who works with the EUs biodiversity strategyand urban issues at DG Environment + Q&A
10.25 Creating and maintaining Urban Nature in Copenhagen
- Paul Maslen, Biologist in the Technical and Environmental Administration, Copenhagen Municipality
10.45 Climate adaptation and nature-based solutions in an urban environment
- Karine Hertzberg, Special Adviser for International Climate Cooperation, City of Oslo
11.05 Helsinki’s Roadmap for Circular and Sharing Economy
- Leona Silberstein, Urban Environment Division, City of Helsinki
11.25 Presenting Stockholm’s new biodiversity strategy – making one of Europe’s greenest cities even greener
- Speaker tbc, City of Stockholm
11.45 Q&A session and closing remarks
12.00 End
The organisers behind this event are Helsinki EU Office, Greater Copenhagen EU Office, Stockholm Region EU Office and Oslo Region European Office.