WORKSHOPS | DAY 1 OF THE SUSTAINABLE CITIES IN ACTION FORUM 2024

What We Learnt: Designing an ESG-compliant Supply Chain

Exploration of the challenges Expo City Dubai navigated to build sustainability into the entire value chain. Urban solutions providers, vendors and SMEs met the people shaping Expo City’s supplier ecosystem and learned more about Expo City’s approach to creating sustainable integrated supply chains.

Re-imagining Cities for the Future: What does the city of the future look, feel, sound and function like?

This interactive session with the World Green Building Council and Emirates Green Building Council brought practitioners together to imagine and co-create vibrant, sustainable urban landscapes that prioritise well-being, resilience and inclusivity.

Sustainable Water Cities: Tools for Diagnosis and Capacity Building

Practitioners explored case studies of cities facing different water challenges, from scarcity to flooding, and learned about technologies which support urban water sustainability with the International Water Resources Association.

Co-curating Sustainable Cities with Minecraft

Urban experts and practitioners used sandbox game Minecraft to co-create inclusive, sustainable city spaces, while gaining hands-on knowledge of creative ways to engage community groups in urban design with experts from the Block by Block Foundation.

The Briefing: Monocle Live Podcast Recording

Global affairs magazine Monocle recorded a series of podcasts live from Sustainable Cities in Action Forum 2024. These lively and illuminating exchanges on sustainable urban development are available on Monocle Radio.

Watch a live recording of this episode featuring Chief Heat Officer for North Dhaka, Bushra Afreen

Terra: Behind the Scenes

Forum participants got the inside track on Terra, the Sustainability Pavilion's LEED certification and waste water and solar energy systems from the Expo City team who led its design.

Scaling SME Solutions for the Future

An SME-led workshop delivered in partnership with SustainUAE, a community of 200-plus SMEs creating innovative solutions for people and planet across the UAE. The findings from this workshop will be used to inform a policy focus document aimed at enabling micro-SMEs and startups to deliver innovative climate and sustainability solutions at speed and at scale.

Kenya: Unpacking the Opportunity with Sustainability in Mind

Led by Nasra Nanda, CEO of the Kenya Green Building Society, and a delegation of Kenyan developers and policymakers, this workshop highlighted the steps taken by Kenya towards a sustainable built environment and identified opportunities for the future.

Global Alliance of Net Zero Communities

Forum participants shared expert insights and perspectives on building net zero communities in this workshop hosted by Vanke and colleagues.