Stockholm 23-24 May 2013

23 May: Cities and Green Growth – Urban evolution
Conference

Moderator 9.00-14.30: Johan Kuylenstierna, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute

8.15–8.45 Registration and coffee

9.00 All participants seated

9.10–9.30 Opening and welcome speeches

• H.R.H Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden

• Sten Nordin, Mayor of Stockholm

9.30–10.10 Welcome speech and presentation of the OECD Flagship report: Green Growth in Cities followed by a discussion

• Yves Leterme, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

10.10-10.40 Coffee break

10.40-11.50 Showcasing good examples and policies. High level debate on Cities and Green Growth

• Per Ankersjö, Deputy Mayor for Urban Environment, City of Stockholm
• Kenji Kitahashi, Mayor of Kitakyushu
  
• Howard Learner, President and Executive Director, Chicago Environmental Law & Policy City of Chicago
• Pierre Mansat, Deputy Mayor of Paris

11.50 - 13.15 Lunch with keynote speech, hosted by the Center for Sustainable Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

• Keynote speaker: David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto and former Chair of the C40 Cities - Climate Leadership Group

13.15–13.30 Green growth – a Swedish perspective

• Lena Ek, Swedish Minister for the Environment

13.30 -14.30 Case: Stockholm, the green and blue city
Presentation of OECD Case Report on Stockholm, followed by high level discussion
Moderator: Johan Kuylenstierna, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute

• Alexis Robert, Urban Policy Analyst, OECD
• Anette Scheibe Lorentzi, Stockholm Deputy County Governor
• Staffan Ingvarsson, Vice CEO, City of Stockholm
• Maria Rankka, CEO, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce
• Charlotte Broberg, Chair, Committee on Growth and Regional Planning, Stockholm County Council
• Katarina Berggren, Mayor, Municipality of Botkyrka
• Göran Marklund, Deputy Director General, VINNOVA, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems
  

Peter Forssman, Chair, Stockholm International Water Institute announces the 2013 Laureate of the Stockholm Water Prize and the 2013 winner of Stockholm Industry Water Award.

14.30 -15.00 Meet a colleague: structured informal meeting programme

15.00-15.30 Coffee break

15.30 Green growth panels

15.30-15.35 Per Ankersjö, Vice-Mayor for Environment, City of Stockholm

15.35-16.50 Eco- districts as catalysts for innovation
Moderator: Göran Finnveden, Professor, Environmental Strategic Analysis, KTH

• Martine Liotard, Architect and PhD, IAU, Paris Region Planning & Development Agency
• Mårten Frumerie, Head of Department, Development Administration, Stockholm
• Thomas Andersson, CEO, Electrum Foundation & Kista Science City
• Mette Margrete Elf, Director, Environment Department, City of Copenhagen
  
• Noel Morrin, Sustainability Director, Skanska

17.10-18.25 Successful waste, water and energy management
Moderator: Johan Kuylenstierna, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute

• Dimitri Zenghelis, Principal Research Fellow, London School of Economics
• Yukari Izumi, Member, OECD Green Cities Programme Kitakyushu Team
• Dean Amhaus, Executive Director, Milwaukee Water Corporation, Chicago
• Martin Powell, Head of Urban Development, Siemens Global Centre of Competence Cities
• Berit Balfors, Professor, Department of Land and Water Resources, KTH

18.25 Closing of conference: Per Ankersjö, Vice-Mayor for Environment, City of Stockholm

18.30 Buffet dinner at the venue

24 May: Study visits - Fully booked

9.00-14.00 Cutting edge green buildings and eco-districts:
Visit innovative buildings with smart energy efficient solutions utilising visitors’ energy generation, district cooling and bio adaptation of district heating. Join us for a trip to the eco-district Hammarby Sjöstad to study, among other things, the successful vacuum waste collection system, and to the new eco-district Stockholm Royal Seaport.