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City Mayors’ international events pages list and review conferences, conventions and seminars on international co-operation between cities and local government bodies.

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October 2009
Ethiopian Cities Day Exhibition
Event: The event, the fourth of its kind, is designed to bring together as many number of cities as possible to the exhibition to CITY MARKET their cities and to showcase their investment, tourism and other potentials to the investment and development community of the Addis Ababa city, and share their best practices with each other.
Date: 22-26 October 2009
Location: Addis Ababa Exhibition Centere
Organiser: Corporate Media and Communiations
Contact: Ohad Benami
Telephone: 251 191 125 2503
Email: ohadbenami@yahoo.com

November 2009
Hamburg City Climate Conference 2009
Event: In the run up to COP-15, Hamburg invites the cities of the world to gather, exchange experiences, and send a clear message to Copenhagen that we are ready and willing for more responsibility.
Reputed international experts will be on hand to contribute important information and ideas to our discussions. Over 300 Mayors and high-level representatives from cities around the world will be joining them to debate ways of creating sustainable energy supplies and improving the quality of life in these increasingly mobile times.
For further information, please visit our website and do not hesitate to contact us.
Hamburg is looking forward to welcoming you.
Date: 16-18 November 2009
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Organiser: City of Hamburg, together with the Covenant of Mayors and in cooperation with the EU Commission
Contact: Jennifer Wesche
Telephone: ++49 40-27 84 76 28
Email: info@hccc09.de
Internet: http://www.city-climate-conference.de/

Japan Day Seminar
Event: The Japan Day Seminar is an annual event hosted by the Japan Local Government Centre to raise awareness of Japan and Japanese local government and provide a real-time opportunity to exchange information and ideas on local government policy and best practice concerning both the UK and Japan. Marking the 20th anniversary of the Japan Local Government Centre in London, 2009‚s Japan Day Seminar will be held in partnership with the Local Government Association at Local Government House, Westminster, London, on Monday the 23rd of November and will examine the different strategies that local authorities in Japan and the UK have adopted to deal with issues brought on by the recession.
Date: 23 November 2009
Location: Local Government House, Smith Square, London SW1
Organiser: Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (Japan)
Contact: Jason Buckley
Telephone: +44 (0)20 78398500
Email: mailbox@jlgc.org.uk
Internet: www.jlgc.org.uk

EUROCITIES 2009 Stockholm
Event: EUROCITIES, the network of major European cities, is pleased to announce its annual conference, this year taking place in the City of Stockholm. The event will focus on the theme of urban challenges, sustainable solutions‚ specific to climate change and economic development.
Stockholm has just been designated European Green Capital 2010, which is testimony to its reputation for pioneering environmental solutions in combination with high economic growth. EUROCITIES 2009 Stockholm will highlight how all local governments across Europe are addressing the effects of climate change while pursuing economic growth. Both these policy areas are priorities for the Swedish Presidency of the EU.
Some highlights of the 2008 EUROCITIES conference will include:
• EUROCITIES‚ Awards 2009, which recognise exceptional work by cities
• The Stockholm Appeal from mayors of Europe‚s biggest cities to negotiators of the UN COP15 in December 2009
• Speed-networking sessions for project presentations and partnerships
• Deep Dive‚ workshops to some of Stockholm‚s most successful environmental projects
WHO: Expected to gather around 400 participants, EUROCITIES 2009 Stockholm is open to:
• City decision-makers including mayors and vice-mayors, elected officials and political leaders, local authorities‚ senior executives and officers
• The private sector, urban service providers, developers, planners, investors
• Development agencies, public private joint ventures, chambers of commerce
• EU institutions, national and regional governments
• Representatives of related networks and associations
• Experts, consultants, academics/researchers
The conference will feature keynote addresses given by:
• Sten Nordin, the Mayor of Stockholm
• Jozias van Aartsen, Mayor of The Hague and President of EUROCITIES
• Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and co-founder and Director of the Gapminder Foundation
• Other special guests and keynote speakers representing the EU institutions, national governments and the Swedish Presidency of the EU
Date: 25-28 November 2009
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Organiser: EUROCITIES
Contact: Sinead Mullins
Telephone: +32 2 552 08 73
Email: sinead.mullins@eurocities.eu
Internet: www.eurocities2009.eu

December 2009
Rotterdam Global Urban Summit
Event: Co-creating New (Green) Deals between cities and businesses
The City of Rotterdam is organising the Global Urban Summit 2009, a conference on high-quality urban development and sustainability. How can cities and businesses cooperate in a ‘green' manner so there is a future for large cities in post-crisis times? During this conference you will not only be able to have an intimate look at how cities deal with the challenges of the future, but you will also be able to come up with your own solutions for city problems through active participation! You will thereby profit to the fullest extent from the results of Rotterdam Global Urban Summit 2009.
The conference will establish relationships between three main themes within high quality urban development: sustainability, international connections and transition towards a knowledge economy.
Date: 3 - 4 December 2009
Location: Doelen Conference Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Organiser: City of Rotterdam
Contact: Judith van der Heijden
Telephone: +31-78-625 38 56
Email: urbansummit@obr.rotterdam.nl
Internet: www.rotterdam.nl/urbansummit

June 2010
World Cities Summit 2010
Event: World Cities Summit is a premier event that brings together practitioners and policy makers with leading experts in their field to identify innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges facing cities today. The inaugural summit in June 2008 brought together 800 senior delegates including leaders, mayors, policy makers and the civil society. To build on its success, the next Summit in 2010 will offer a strategic platform comprising a high-level summit. plenary sessions, business forums and techinical workshops.
Date: 28 - 30 Jun 2010
Location: Singapore
Organiser: Centre for Liveable Cities Singapore
Contact: Ms Joanna Lee
Telephone: 3106-7253
Email: info@worldcities.com.sg
Internet: www.worldcities.com.sg

October 2010
1st International UGEC Science & Practice Conference
Event: The Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) project, a core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change has been leading the way towards a stronger collaboration between academics, decision-makers, and practitioners in order to capture the benefits of urbanization and develop and conceptualize strategies to mitigate and adapt to global environmental change. Researchers and practitioners in the UGEC network continue to explore new themes within the framework of Global Environmental Change (GEC) science, focusing on the impacts of GEC on urban areas and the responses of urban areas to those impacts.
The event will be open to scientists, policymakers and the general public and will provide a comprehensive perspective of current knowledge of the dynamic and complex interactions between urbanization and global environmental change.
The 1st International UGEC Science & Practice Conference will work back to back with the Global Land Project (GLP) Open Science Meeting. GLP is a joint research project for land systems for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and IHDP.
Date: 15-17 October 2010
Location: Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Organiser: Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project (UGEC), an IHDP core project
Contact: Corrie Griffith, UGEC Project Coordinator
Telephone: 480/965-6771
Email: corrie.griffith@asu.edu
Internet: www.ugec.org

November 2010
2010 Global Mayors Forum
Event: The theme of the 2010 Global Mayors Forum is ‘High Growth Cities: Meeting the Challenges for Sustainability’. Some 1,000 distinguished guests from all over the world are expecting to attend the Forum. They are: 200 mayors, 500 top global investors, 200 top urban operators, 100 experts on urban development and dozens of officials from the UN.
The Global Mayors Forum aims at establishing powerful win-win cooperation, to enable the best of the Forum and enabling each part to get desirable benefits. The 2010 Forum will be divided into three major parts: Forum Conference, Commercial Activities and Peripheral Activities. The Forum Conference includes three sessions, which are Plenary Sessions, Parallel Forum and High- End Dialogue. Also there we prepare the commercial activities for the business action directly including ‘Roundtables One to One’, ‘Project Presentation’ and ‘Urban Promotion Display’, which provide a significant channel to meet mayors, government officials and city delegations and to explore the market and potential business opportunities. We will offer a unit of 36 square meters display booth for you to show the best image of your city and the preferential policy to attract tourism or investment. You may also launch your latest incredible projects during our Project Presentation sections with the present of Elites of global mainstream media. ‘Roundtables One to One’ is designed especially for the investors, project financing parties, importers and exporters. Before the Forum, we will spend time to match the enterprises or investors according to their individual needs and later during the Forum opportunity to have a meeting with them one-to-one. Besides, the name, logo and contact information of enterprises will be printed on the handbook, which will be delivered to each of the participants. As to ‘Project Presentation’, you can release your project in this great event, which attracts attention of all levels. Your company’s participation in the GMF will improve your company’s image, present you with innovative ideas for development, as well as provide you with greater business opportunities with Chinese partners or international ones. Therefore, the 2010 Global Mayors Forum will not only serve as a stage for high-end dialogues, but also as a platform for launching concrete projects.
During the Forum, the opportunity for mayors and other guests are:
• Listening to: the latest thinking of UN officials, Global Mayors and Commerce Leaders about urban development;
• Learning: the latest theories about urban sustainability and successful practices from global mayors;
• Approaching: potential buyers, business partners and investors with great economic strength and other potential co-operators;
• Understanding: the economic trend of the high growth of Chinese cities and the demand of international urban development;
• Witnessing: the communication and sparkling of global urban culture;
• Meeting: urban operators, commerce leaders, experts, scholars and mainstream media all over the 5 continentals;
• Displaying: urban appearance and enterprise image;
• Discussing: the approaches to promote urban sustainability and the ways to enhance effective urban management;
• Achieving: Inspiration of urban management and business opportunity of projects co-operation.
Date: 5 to 8 November 2010
Location: Hong Kong and Shenzhen City, China
Organiser: IMCC (international mayors communication center)
Contact: Jessica Liu
Telephone: +86-755-86100516 ext.821
Email: jessica@hk-imcc.com
Internet: www.hk-imcc.com, www.g-mf.com