As part of the global movement to bring nature back into cities, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity are collaborating with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and the Government of India to organize the Cities for Life: City and Subnational Biodiversity Summit on October 15 and 16.
This summit will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre in parallel to the CBD COP 11. Being the host city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is facilitating the execution of this summit which will feature a high level interactive dialogue bringing together local and sub-national governments from across the globe. Its aim is to help them implement Decision X/ 22 on the Plan of Action on Sub national Governments, Cities and Local Authorities for Biodiversity.
The purpose of the meeting is to take stock of the progress made since the City Biodiversity Summit at the CBD COP 10 at Nagoya in 2010. Cities for Life will be the third gathering of its kind to be organized in parallel to the COP, but the first to take place directly adjacent to the COP negotiations.
The summit will draw over 300 participants ranging from city and sub-national leaders, national governments, international organizations, UN agencies and specialists from across the world. ICLEI, the world´s leading association of over 1200 cities and local governments dedicated to sustainable development, was one of the key partners who organized the City Biodiversity Summit at Nagoya, Japan in 2010.
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