Climate change and rapid urbanisation are creating unprecedented challenges for cities. Innovative solutions and data-driven decision making are needed for climate adaptation plans. Better integration of nature-based solutions, carbon positive developments and resource circularity can enhance resilience and liveability.

Plenary 1: How can we create cities in nature through regenerative design?

Co-curated with C40 Cities

While the ecological and well-being benefits of urban nature are well-established, the urgent challenge remains: how do we transform our concrete landscapes into flourishing, living systems? This plenary moves beyond the "why" to focus on the strategy planning and delivery of nature on the ground - protecting existing ecosystems and cultivating new ones through rooftop greenery, redesigned public spaces, and biophilic neighbourhoods. This plenary will dive into the practical levers of change that cities are utilising to sow the seeds for a future where nature and the built environment thrive in harmony including spatial strategy and land-use planning, market mechanisms and incentives, public asset, and participatory planning and stewardship.

Plenary 2: How do cities achieve resource circularity and low-carbon futures?

Planning for a climate-changed and resource-constrained future increasingly involves low-carbon initiatives and resource circularity.

This plenary examines how these efforts can be better integrated across urban scales to enhance liveability in our cities, while accelerating the clean energy transition.

Cities for People
Resilient and Regenerative Cities

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