30 September - 2 October 2020
This summit showcased the role cities and their urban partners are playing in implementing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The virtual symposium format provided a platform for delegates to listen and interact with some of the world’s leading voices in urban sustainability and action on climate change, including case studies of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Delegates were invited to join the collaborative process of co-design between business, academic and government solution providers, offering each participating city the opportunity to produce an implementation plan aligned to the SDGs.
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The symposium was presented by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and the Connected Cities Lab (now Melbourne Centre for Cities); with partners the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia and the Banksia Foundation.
Thanks to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), who supported the development of Voluntary Local Reviews as part of the SDGs Cities Challenge. The Symposium is an official Urban Thinkers Campus '5.0' event, part of the UN-Habitat led World Urban Campaign.
A special mention to Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Murrup Barak and the New Student Precinct who the convenors worked with to assemble a Student Ambassador group to work on program development, facilitation and writing.