Cities Summit of the Americas: Building Resilience with Nature in Cities

During this session at the Cities Summit of the Americas in Denver, co-hosted by the World Resources Institute and United Nations Environment Programme, in collaboration with UrbanShift and Cities4Forests, leaders and experts shared perspectives on successful nature-based solutions in Latin American cities, as well as strategies to increase financing for resilience efforts.
Speakers:
Pablo Lazo, Acting Director, Urban Development, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Eugénie L. Birch, Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania
Jaime Pumarejo, Mayor of Barranquilla, Colombia
Axel Grael, Mayor of Niteroi, Brazil
Santiago Bermudez Barrientos, Deputy Mayor of Desamparados, Metropolitan Area of San José, Costa Rica
Robin King, Director of Knowledge Capture and Collaboration, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Tatiana Gallego Lizon, Chief of the Housing and Urban Development Division, Inter-American Development Bank
Carlos Eduardo Correa, Former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia; Former Mayor of Montería, and IOA Non-resident Fellow
Mauricio Rodas, Former Mayor of Quito, Ecuador, and Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Todd Gartner, Director, Cities4Forests, WRI
Mia Callenberg, Environmental Specialist, Sustainable Cities Impact Program, Global Environment Facility