Facilitator: Michael Schmitz, Executive Director, ICLEI USA, Oakland, USA

Keynote:

• Jeb Brugmann, Founder of ICLEI in 1992, Now: Founding Partner, The Next Practice, Toronto, Canada
  The Productive City (part1) (part2)
  

Local response(s)

• Parks Tau, Executive Mayor, City of Johannesburg, South Africa
  Building on a solid foundation towards a productive City of Johannesburg
  
  
• Further examples from and discussion with the auditorium
  
  
  

E1 World Mayors Council General Assembly (more)

E2 Local solutions to regional challenges: Latin American cities special session with Gil Peñalosa (more)

E3 Ecocities (more)

E4 Fast growth - Green growth (more)

E5 City food systems (more)

E6  Knowledge Cities (more)

E7  Green Pilgrim Cities (more)

E8  Healthy and happy communities (more)

E9  Program design session: Productive city (more)

Including a special Mayors’ lunch hosted by Mayor of Belo Horizonte.
During lunch meets the newly composed ICLEI Council for electing the new President and the new Vice-Presidents.

Facilitator: David Cadman, ICLEI President

ICLEI World Congress Message to Rio

• David Cadman, ICLEI President
  Introduction of the Message
  
  
• Marcio Araujo de Lacerda, Mayor, City of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  
  
• Won Soon Park, Mayor, City of Seoul, Republic of Korea
  Comment from the World Mayors Council

Global success stories

• Martha Delgado Peralta, Secretary of Environment, City of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
  The Mexico City Pact
  

• M. T. Krishna Babu, Municipal Commissioner, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Hyderabad, India
  Nagoya Plan of Action of Local and Subnational Governments on Biodiversity
  

• James Sikhosiphi Nxumalo, Mayor, Durban Metropolitan Council, Durban, South Africa
  The Durban Adaptation Charter

 Local ambitions

• Gilberto Kassab, Mayor, City of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  
  
• Won Soon Park, Mayor, City of Seoul, Republic of Korea
  One Less Nuclear Power Plant” through energy saving and new & renewable energy generation (presentation) (video)
  

 Panel: What can we expect from Rio? With all previous presenters and ...

• Evelyne Huytebroeck, Minister for Environment, Energy and Urban renewal, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Bruxelles, Belgium
  
  
• Ilmar Reepalu, Mayor, City of Malmö Sweden & Chair of Environment Commission, EU Committee of theRegions, Europe
  
  
• Ronan Dantec, Senator and Nantes Metropole Councilor, City of Nantes, France & UCLG Climate Spokesperson
  
  

Please download session description here.

Facilitator: Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, Secretary General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn, Germany

World congress 2012: Congress achievements

• Gino Van Begin, Deputy Secretary General/ Regional Director, ICLEI Europe, Freiburg, Germany
  
• Future City Leaders Initiative
  Dominic Frongillo, Town Councilor, City of Caroline, New York, Caroline, United States

Will Cities help the planet? Congress impressions from our experts?

• Sustainable World by 2050, the role of cities
  Martin Lees, Former Executive Secretary of the Club of Rome, Club of Rome, United Kingdom
  
• Congress perspectives
  Gil (Guillermo) Penalosa, Executive Director, 8-80 Cities, Toronto, Canada

Closing and farewell

• Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, Secretary General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn, Germany