CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (January 4, 2010) – More than 120 innovative thinkers will gather at the New York Academy of Sciences January 7, 2010 to explore how fiscal policy can support sustainability.
Sustainable City Finance, organized by Urban Age Institute and co-sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, features discussion and debate among more than 120 innovators in financing sustainability, greening city infrastructure, and encouraging economic development in cities. The topics will span energy, water, transport, and the built environment.
The agenda focuses on how companies and governments are successfully partnering in order to accelerate urban projects that promote green growth, according to Gordon Feller, chief executive of the Urban Age Institute. Some of the most interesting initiatives, he said, leverage recent changes in the banking and credit markets to provide financing that adopts new technologies, as urban economies make the transition to a cleaner and lower-carbon future.
Additional partner organizations include the Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Jones Lang LaSalle, Urban Land Institute, the Regional Plan Association, the World Bank, United Nations, CHF International, the New York Observer, and others.
WHO: More than 40 speakers, including:
Gordon Feller, CEO, Urban Age Institute
Rohit (Rit) Aggarwala, Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, City of New York
Ian Brown, Gallup Institute for Global Cities
Robert Buckley, Rockefeller Foundation
Barry Caldwell, Waste Management International
Armando Carbonell, Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Andrew Carman, Siemens Financial Services
Ronald Dembo, ZeroFootprint
Brian English, CHF International
Abha Joshi Ghani, Manager of Urban Development, World Bank
Jan Olbrycht, Member of the European Parliament (Poland)
Neal Peirce, Washington Post Group
Yan Peng, Clean Air Initiative-Asia (Peoples Republic of China)
Seth Pinsky, NYC Economic Development Corporation
Bill Reinert, Toyota Motor Sales
Eduardo Rojas, Inter-American Development Bank
Tom Wright, Regional Plan Association
Robert Yaro, Regional Plan Association
WHEN: Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM.
Networking reception will follow.
WHERE: The New York Academy of Sciences
7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St., 40th floor
Media must RSVP with Adrienne Burke, (212) 298-8655 and aburke@nyas.org. Register and see speaker biographies here
The New York Academy of Sciences is an independent, not-for-profit organization committed to advancing science, technology, and society worldwide since 1817. The Lincoln Institute is a leading resource for key issues concerning the use, regulation, and taxation of land.
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