Edmonton – The city of Edmonton, Canada has been selected to host the first ever Cities and Climate Change Science Conference. Co-sponsored by the IPCC, the conference will support implementation of the Paris Agreement and New Urban Agenda.

Edmonton is known outside of Canada for its hockey team – the Edmonton Oilers – while the province of Alberta has made headlines for its polluting tar sands. But the province’s capital city will put on a decidedly greener face in March 2018 after it beat out nine other cities to be selected as host of the first-ever Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 

“Cities are on the front lines of the fight against climate change,” Shannon Phillips, Alberta’s minister for climate change, said in a statement. Her comments were echoed by Debra Roberts, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group II, who said that “cities around the world need science to help them better understand” the climate action options required by the 2015 Paris climate accord. 

The conference – which is supported by a diverse group of organisations calling themselves #CitiesIPCC, such as C40, ICLEI, UN-Habitat and UNEP – promises to be a “pivotal milestone in developing the global understanding of how climate change will impact cities and the role of cities in tackling climate change”. The conference outcomes will help member states, mayors and citizens deliver on the Paris Agreement, the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

Edmonton – The city of Edmonton, Canada has been selected to host the first ever Cities and Climate Change Science Conference. Co-sponsored by the IPCC, the conference will support implementation of the Paris Agreement and New Urban Agenda.

Edmonton is known outside of Canada for its hockey team – the Edmonton Oilers – while the province of Alberta has made headlines for its polluting tar sands. But the province’s capital city will put on a decidedly greener face in March 2018 after it beat out nine other cities to be selected as host of the first-ever Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 

“Cities are on the front lines of the fight against climate change,” Shannon Phillips, Alberta’s minister for climate change, said in a statement. Her comments were echoed by Debra Roberts, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group II, who said that “cities around the world need science to help them better understand” the climate action options required by the 2015 Paris climate accord. 

The conference – which is supported by a diverse group of organisations calling themselves #CitiesIPCC, such as C40, ICLEI, UN-Habitat and UNEP – promises to be a “pivotal milestone in developing the global understanding of how climate change will impact cities and the role of cities in tackling climate change”. The conference outcomes will help member states, mayors and citizens deliver on the Paris Agreement, the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).