Towards the next decades of Local ActionRealising DReAMS meets Rio+20

Holger RobrechtDirector Sustainability ManagementICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability

2nd Project Team Meeting Freiburg, 11 February 2011

• „Once upon a time …“When the cell-phone appeared• Preparing for the next 2 decades• After Hopenhagen

AfterHopenhagen

„Perhaps more than anywhere else, cities offer the opportunity to develop adaptation and mitigation win-win

ininitiatives. In the absence of decisive global policies on climate change, cities need to serve as centres of policy

ingenuity to drive real action.Yvo de Boer, former Exective Secretary, United Nations

Framework Convention on Climate Change

Climate Change Impacts

Source: UNEP, Climate in Peril

1900 1950 2000 2050

.7bn

.2bn

2.9bn

6.4bn

20103.5bn

70%

Source : Jeb Brugman / UN Wolrd Population Prospect 2006/2007

Overshoot Day 2010:

23. August

Quelle: Global Footprint Network

October 6, 2007September 23, 2008

„As of tomorrow, you‘ll be rationale again."Taken from: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 2009

Lead-up to Rio+20

• State of play with LA 21 and local sustainability• Position papers: Green Economoy, Int.

Environmental Governance, Global Framework for Local Sustainability• Case Studies• Web Portal• ‚Local Government summit‘

DReAMS meets Rio+20

• Local Stories of global responsibility (Rio + 20 Study, TEEB)• Advanced ecoBUDGET / PDMS• Tools• Briefing Note: Towards meeting MDG‘s• Advocacy: Planning impact – Newsletter,

Views, Conferences

DReAMS meets Rio+20

Can we do a commitment?

Realising DReAMS

Realising DReAMS

Avoiding Nightmares