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Webinar: Climate Finance for Cities and Buildings and Climate-related mechanisms to support Sustainable Public Procurement

June 09, 2015

Joint webinar: Friday 12 June 2015, 16:00 – 17:00 MSC

Cities and Lifestyles Unit

Sustainable Public Procurement programmeGlobal Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities

Hosted by UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, the first joint webinar of the Sustainable Public Procurement programme and the Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities will focus on the
climate finance tools and the use of climate-related mechanisms to support sustainable public procurement (SPP) at the local level.

The objectives of this webinar are to:

  1. Raise awareness among city-level stakeholders on existing climate finance tools;
  2. discuss the use of climate-related mechanisms to support SPP and present tools used to measure and improve the performance of buildings.

Related readings: UNEP 2014, “Climate Finance for Cities and Buildings: A Handbook for Local Governments”.

Draft agenda
16:00—16:05 Welcome and Introduction by the moderator
  • Mr. Farid Yaker, UNEP, 10YFP SPP Programme Officer
  • Overview of the GoToWebinar functionalities, Ms. Irina Uzun, UNEP, SPP programme
16:05—16:20 Climate Finance for Cities and Buildings: tools and opportunities for Local Governments
  • Mr. Stephane Pouffary, ENERGIES 2050, on the recently released report “Climate Finance for Cities and Buildings: A Handbook for Local Governments”
16:20—16:35



16:35—16:50
Climate-related mechanisms to support Sustainable Public Procurement
  • Mr. Kevin Kampschroer, Federal Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, US General Services Administration, on “Public and Private Partnerships and their implications for climate change mitigation on a portfolio scale”
  • Mr. Pekka Huovila, Consultant, Ministry of the Environment of Finland (MoE), Coordinator of the 10YFP Sustainable Buildings and Construction programme on „Procurement of sustainable buildings: using Core Indicators to establish a quantitative baseline“
16:50 – 17:00 Discussions and closing

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