AIPH Green City Briefing: Growing trees for climate change resilient cities

Trees play a crucial role in urban environments, significantly contributing to climate change resilience.

Trees help mitigate urban heat island effect, provide places for people to socialise and can transform urban areas. Selecting, caring and protecting trees in urban areas is vital for building sustainable, resilient cities that can adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Programme

13:00 – Welcome by MC Stefania Romano, Coordinator of Transformative Urban Nature Action for UNECE/FAO

13:15 – Presentation by first speaker

13:30 – Presentation by second speaker

13:45 – Q&A

14:00 – Briefing closes

MC – Stefania Romano

With a Public Policy background, Stefania has worked for more than a decade for the Italian Ministry of the Environment (IMELS); first posted in Serbia, she was later seconded by IMELS to an international organisation, the Regional Environmental Centre (REC), where she became the Director of the Italian Fund (ITF), targeting specific environmental programs and channelling governmental funds throughout several geographical regions, such as Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, and the MENA region.

In this institutional framework Stefania co-developed the Sustainable Development Academy (SDA) – an educational, capacity building program for senior officials and businesses leaders – and co-established the CEO Platform for Green Growth in the MENA region, a program mobilising actions for green solutions across top-notch businessmen in the Arab region (ceoplatform.rec.org).

On behalf of the Italian Ministry of Environment, Stefan coordinated the bilateral environmental cooperation between Brazil and Italy, setting up the relevant institutional agreements and supervising the Italian Pavilion at United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 (Rio+20) for the Italian delegation.