Session Details: The New York Times Climate Hub

Construction and Design

Urban Urgency: The Future of Global Cities

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

The Forum

Panel

Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Jason Farago - Critic at Large, The New York Times
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr - Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone
Kathy Baughman McLeod - Senior Vice President and Director, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, Atlantic Council

As the world recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, how can our centers of business, culture, talent and innovation evolve? Will the accelerated rise of remote working change the center-periphery organization of urban life? And as city planners and developers design the cities of the future, what opportunities exist for collaboration between private enterprise and public authorities?

Policy, Youth

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Cross Theme	Targeting Change	Conversation	B2B
Cross Theme	Cleaning Up Our Act: The Air Our Children Need to Breathe	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Panel: Forming Partnerships With Schools in the Global South	Panel	Educate
Food and Agriculture	Winning the Race: How to Cut Food Waste	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	The Meat of the Matter: Solutions for North and South	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Look Around: Building Nature-Based Solutions	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Shaping the World Map: The New Geopolitics of Climate Change	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Moonshot Inventions: Staying True to the Needs of People and the Planet	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	What’s Happening: A Special Debrief on COP Negotiations	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Passing the Torch: Intergenerational Climate Dialogues	Panel	B2C
Water and Oceans	Deep Blue Transition: Merging the Green and Blue Agendas	Panel	B2B
Transport and Mobility	Time and Space: Moving People and Goods in a Carbon-Free World	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Headteachers’ Tactics: How Schools Can Prepare Their Students for a Changing Climate	Debate	Educate
Cross Theme	A Conversation With Science	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	All the Difference: Improving Our Systems From Within	Panel	B2B
Construction and Design	Diving Into the Deep End: Deep Tech for Climate Solutions	Panel	B2C
	Future Proof: Health Systems for a Healthy Planet	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Mark Landler In Conversation with Andrew Steer	Conversation	B2C
Cross Theme	Creating a Research-Informed Manifesto for Environmental Sustainability in Education	Talk	Educate
Cross Theme	A Conversation With Science	Panel	B2B
	Two Steps or Not Two Steps: The Power of (Incremental) Change on the Race to Net-Zero	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Indigenous Rights: Securing the Future of Biodiversity	Panel	B2C
Energy and Storage	Oil, Money and Power: How Competition Could Create a New World Order	Panel	B2B
Transport and Mobility	Back to Basics: Building Resilient Supply Chains	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	The “Next Big Thing” in Green Finance: Valuing Biodiversity	Panel	B2B
Water and Oceans	Water Works: Prioritizing the Health of Oceans	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	A Conversation With Science	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	The U.N.’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: Is It Working?	Talk	Educate
Cross Theme	A Conversation With Science	Panel	B2C
Food and Agriculture	Not So Fast: Ensuring a Just Agricultural Transition	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	From Climate Change to Change-Making: Firing Up Youth Activism	Talk	Educate
Cross Theme	The Power of Knowledge: Girls’ Education as an Accelerator of Climate Action	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Market Forces: Incentivizing Climate Innovation	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Climate Court: Cases of Climate Justice	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Beginning at the End: How to Keep a Product Alive	Panel	B2C
Energy and Storage	The Great Reversal: Identifying Key Levers for the Green Transition	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Doubling Down: How to Fix the Economy and Finance the Transition	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Future-Proofing Pupils: Preparing Students for Work in a Changing World	Talk	Educate
Cross Theme	A Conversation Hosted by Emma Watson	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	A Conversation With Science	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Somini Sengupta in Conversation With Yuval Noah Harari and Vanessa Nakate	Conversation	B2C
Transport and Mobility	Hop on the S.D.G. Train: Transport and Sustainable Development Goals	Panel	B2B
Construction and Design	The Design Imperative: Adapting Homes and Communities to Mitigate Climate Risks	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Green Upskilling: The Next Generation of Climate Skills and Leadership	Panel	B2B
Energy and Storage	What It Takes: Responsibility and Incentives	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	A Picture Worth a Thousand Words: Visual Arts and Climate Change	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	On the Ground: Local and Global Climate Journalism in Action	Panel	B2C
Water and Oceans	Everyone’s Claim, Nobody’s Responsibility: Sustainable Ocean Governance	Panel	B2C
	Can Tech Enable Everyone, Everywhere to Make More Sustainable Choices?	Talk	B2B
Cross Theme	The New York Times Debate: Migration Is a Sound Adaptation and Reparations Strategy.	Debate	B2C
Cross Theme	Teaching Critical Thinking in an Age of Misinformation	Talk	Educate
Cross Theme	COP for Scots: Building a Climate Legacy	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	A Conversation With Science	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Reboot the Future: How Do We Move Faster, Together?	Panel	Educate
Cross Theme	Draw a Circle: Removing Waste From Our Economy	Panel	B2B
Construction and Design	Smarter, Better, Faster, Stronger: New Materials for the Construction Industry	Panel	B2B
Energy and Storage	The Storage Conundrum: Production vs. Waste	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Riding the Curve: How to Harness Exponential Change	Panel	B2C
Food and Agriculture	Plant Trees Not Just Seeds: Counteracting Deforestation	Panel	B2C
	The Future of Sports Is Green: How to Protect Our Planet and Our Playing Fields	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Circularity, Scale and Style: When Will We Reach Critical Mass?	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Hearts and Minds: Storytelling and Climate Change	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Bright Lights: Scottish Youth Climate Initiatives	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	The Data We Need: Enabling Climate Solutions	Panel	B2C
Energy and Storage	The New York Times Debate: Our Obsession With Technology Will Slow Down the Green Transition.	Debate	B2B
Cross Theme	The New York Times Debate: Democratic Leaders Are Better Prepared to Address Climate Change Than Authoritarian Ones.	Debate	B2C
Cross Theme	A Conversation With Science	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Climate Tech Will Be Bigger Than the Internet Revolution	Talk	Educate
Cross Theme	A Conversation With Science	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Returning to the Heartwood	Panel	B2C
Water and Oceans	Washing Up: Ensuring Universal Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Women Must Lead Now: Prioritizing Female Voices for a Just Transition	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	News Travels Fast: The Media's Role in Covering Climate Change	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Step-by-Step: Priorities for the Transition to Net Zero	Panel	B2B
Food and Agriculture	The Great Intervention: Innovation in Food Systems	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Reasons to Believe: Unleashing the Power of Optimism	Panel	B2C
	Tackling the Climate Crisis: What Role for Infrastructure?	Talk	B2C
Transport and Mobility	Making It Easy: Sustainable Mobility in the 21st Century	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Explore: Urban Nature Teacher CPD	Talk	Educate
Food and Agriculture	The New York Times Debate: On a Hotter Planet, the Onus of Transforming Food Systems Is on the Rich World.	Debate	B2B
Construction and Design	Urban Urgency: The Future of Global Cities	Panel	B2B
Cross Theme	Not There Yet: Truth-Testing Corporate Climate Promises	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Systems Change: Sustainable Innovations Powering the Great Transformation	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Climate Justice Means Racial Justice	Panel	B2C
Cross Theme	Thomas Friedman in Conversation With U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry	Talk	B2C
	Raising the Roof: Voices for the Amazon, curated by Global Canopy	Dinner and Conversation	B2C
Cross Theme	Opening Celebration	Networking	B2C

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