22 Jun | 11:30–12:30
Conference Schedule
Session Types
Theme
Speakers
Conference room 1 (CR1)
22 Jun | 12:35–13:35
From Insight to Impact: Leveraging UCCRN Climate Knowledge and City Solutions
22 Jun | 15:00–17:30
I4C26 Organized Expert Review of the IPCC SR Cities Second Order Draft (Session 1)
23 Jun | 10:45–11:45
Inventory Generator – A scalable method for building city-scale GHG inventories from national and regional data
23 Jun | 11:50–12:15
Scaling Climate-Resilient Housing Solutions Across India's Informal and Formal Urban Settlements
23 Jun | 12:20–12:45
Scaling Climate-Resilient Housing to address Extreme Heat and Flooding: Finance, Innovation, and Community-Led Action
23 Jun | 14:30–15:30
Equitable Urban Climate Finance: Redirecting Capital to Secondary Cities and Informal Settlements
23 Jun | 17:00–19:00
I4C26 Organized Expert Review of the IPCC SR Cities Second Order Draft (Session 2)
24 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Equitable Urban Planning in a Changing Climate
24 Jun | 12:00–12:25
Integrating Mobility and Climate Action in African Cities: Building Resilient Cities for Displaced and Host Communities
24 Jun | 12:30–12:55
Implementing Inclusive Climate Action: Lessons from Cities
24 Jun | 13:00–13:30
Evaluating and Embedding Climate and Community Resilience & Indigenous Approaches in Civic Spaces
Conference room 2 (CR2)
22 Jun | 09:00–10:00
I4C26 Welcome and Opening Remarks
22 Jun | 10:00–11:00
Driving Multi-level Governance and Partnerships
22 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Science as a Catalyst: Mobilising Urban Climate Research Actors from the Global South for the IPCC SR Cities
22 Jun | 12:00–13:00
Mining the past, inventing the future: A decade of urban climate action, and what comes next
22 Jun | 13:05–13:30
How City Communities of Practice Can Engage with the IPCC Special Report on Cities: Insights from Kaohsiung-ICLEI ComP
22 Jun | 15:00–15:25
Spatial (In)Justice & Tenure Security: Evaluating TRANCRAA Transitions in Thaba Phatswa, South Africa
22 Jun | 15:30–16:30
Governance at Scale: Delivering CHAMP Objectives via Integrated National Platforms
22 Jun | 16:35–17:25
Integrating Sustainability into Metropolitan Planning: An SDG Framework for MMRDA
22 Jun | 17:30–18:00
Day 1 Wrap-up
23 Jun | 08:30–09:00
Day 2 Welcome Remarks
23 Jun | 09:00–10:15
Housing and Infrastructure
23 Jun | 14:30–14:55
Urban Climate Action and Overshoot
23 Jun | 15:00–15:30
Counting People, Mapping Risk: Open Geospatial Data for Climate-Resilient Urban Policy
23 Jun | 15:30–17:00
Finance, Implementation and Data (Enablers)
23 Jun | 17:00–19:00
2026 AI x City Climate Action Hackathon: Global Launch
24 Jun | 08:30–09:00
Day 3, Welcome Remarks
24 Jun | 09:00–10:30
IPCC Dialogue (Science Plenary)
24 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Building Resilience of Aquatic Communities to Climate Change in Lagos State: Green Mobility,Innovation,Climate Cobenefit
24 Jun | 12:00–12:25
Data-driven spatial negotiation: From vision to integrated action
24 Jun | 12:30–12:55
Scaling the Embu Adaptation Model: Nature-Based Solutions & Emerging Tech for Climate Resilience in Informal Settlements
24 Jun | 13:00–13:25
GenAI for Sustainable Mobility Behaviour Change: MUV's AI-Driven Game Engine
24 Jun | 13:45–14:30
Closing Plenary
Conference room 3 (CR3)
22 Jun | 11:30–11:55
From Mumbai to Kisumu: Building a zero waste model through community-led solutions and partnerships.
22 Jun | 12:00–13:00
Trash To Treasure: Circular Cities in Action
22 Jun | 13:05–13:30
Accelerating climate action through a just and inclusive workforce
22 Jun | 15:00–17:30
An Exquisite Structure: Building a Creative Vision of the GRAA
23 Jun | 10:45–11:10
Using Satellite Data to Tell the Story of Flood Risk in East African Cities
23 Jun | 11:15–12:15
From Data Infrastructure to Local Climate Action: Lessons from South Africa's Multilevel Climate Governance Hub
23 Jun | 12:20–12:45
AI for Urban Climate Action: Accelerating Coordinated Multi-Level Governance
23 Jun | 13:30–14:30
I4C Youth Roundtable on Urban Climate Leadership and Career Pathways
23 Jun | 18:00–19:00
Shaping the Next GRAA
24 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Building Heat Resilience in Punjab's Urban Centers: Community-Driven Approaches for Resource-Constrained Regions
24 Jun | 12:00–13:00
From Satellites to Action: AI and Urban Heat analysis for Climate-Resilient Cities
24 Jun | 13:05–13:30
Inclusive Heat Action: Who is left behind?
Conference room 4 (CR4)
22 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Estimating the Costs of Resilient and Low-Carbon Urbanization – Data from the World Bank's 'Banking on Cities' Report
22 Jun | 12:00–13:00
Experimenting with Data: Unlocking access to finance for intermediary cities through co-creation
22 Jun | 13:05–13:30
New Climate Funding: Cities as Emerging Donors
22 Jun | 15:00–15:25
From Research to Action: The Global Urban Transformation Network
22 Jun | 15:30–16:30
The Kali Polis Project: Building the Next Generation of City Climate Leaders
22 Jun | 16:35–17:00
From Data to Action: Empowering Rapidly Urbanizing Cities with Climate and Urbanization Insights
23 Jun | 10:45–11:45
Cities as Climate Laboratories: Innovating, Governing, and Scaling Urban Climate Action
23 Jun | 11:45–12:45
Getting #SRCities into the right hands: A participatory discussion on communicating urban climate knowledge for action
23 Jun | 13:45–14:45
Local Leaders Roundtable
24 Jun | 11:30–12:30
From Coordination to Implementation: Financing Urban Transitions through Partnerships and Real Estate Innovation
24 Jun | 12:30–13:30
Steering the digital frontier: R&I TWG consultation and discussion on digitalisation and AI for City Climate Action
Conference room 6 (CR6)
22 Jun | 11:30–12:30
From Climate Targets to Real Action: Agentic Planning in Minutes, Not Months
22 Jun | 12:30–13:30
Decarbonisation Leapfrogging in transport services and infrastructure: from local experience/evidence to scalable impact
22 Jun | 14:30–14:55
Urban Vegetation and Thermal Regulation: NDVI–LST Analysis for Climate-Responsive Urban Planning
22 Jun | 15:00–15:25
The power of shade. Co-producing a scalable network of cooling shelters for heat-resilient public space
22 Jun | 17:00–17:25
Community Partnerships for Equitable Local Climate Action
22 Jun | 17:30–18:30
Decarbonising the Heat: What European City Case Studies Reveal About Fossil Fuel Phase-Out
22 Jun | 18:35–19:00
Child-Centric Urbanism as a Climate Catalyst: Scaling Community-Led "Living Labs" for Resilient Cities
23 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Youth Mental Health and Cities: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons from Kenya and India
23 Jun | 12:00–12:25
Building Liveable Cities: Tamil Nadu Case on Nature based Wastewater Solutions
23 Jun | 12:30–12:55
Climate Action from the Margins: Housing, Urban Informality, and Nature-Based Solutions in the Global South
23 Jun | 13:00–13:25
Scaling Circular Cities: Community-Led Plastic Solutions for Climate and Green Jobs
23 Jun | 14:30–14:55
AI for urban climate action: evidence synthesis and lessons from Jakarta
23 Jun | 15:00–15:25
Financing Managed Retreat: A Multi-Hazard Framework for Cash-Strapped Cities
23 Jun | 17:00–17:25
Resilient Territories Networks: A Practical Methodology to Scale Urban Climate Adaptation
23 Jun | 17:30–17:55
Nudge-Based Governance for Housing Resilience Energy Poverty, Disaster Risk, and Equity in Brazil and Spain
23 Jun | 18:00–18:30
Building for a Changing Climate: Costa Rica’s Process to Develop a Climate Adaptation Code
23 Jun | 18:30–19:00
Building Differently: How Traditional Knowledge Is Reshaping Sustainable Cities
Conference room 8 (CR8)
22 Jun | 11:30–13:30
SURGe Workshop
22 Jun | 15:00–17:30
SURGe Workshop
23 Jun | 09:00–10:15
UTM Workshop
23 Jun | 10:45–13:00
UTM Workshop
23 Jun | 13:30–14:00
UTM Workshop
23 Jun | 17:00–18:00
UTM Cluster
Conference room 9 (CR9)
22 Jun | 12:00–13:00
BRIEFING TO MEMBER STATES
22 Jun | 13:30–14:30
Rapidly-urbanizing cities
22 Jun | 15:00–17:30
Turning Policy into Practice With City-Business Partnership: City-Business Climate Alliance Workshop
23 Jun | 10:45–11:10
Decentralizing and monitoring water safety in urban informal communities: The case of Nairobi, Kenya
23 Jun | 11:15–12:15
Urban Rental Housing in a Climate Emergency: The Missing Lever for City Climate Action
23 Jun | 13:00–17:00
CDR workshop
23 Jun | 17:00–17:25
From Data to Decisions: Using Digital Innovation and Economic Evidence to Scale Nature-Based Solutions in Dire Dawa
23 Jun | 17:30–17:55
Creative Narratives for Urban Resilience: Storytelling as a Catalyst for Local Climate Action in Creative Cities
24 Jun | 11:30–12:30
From Local Resilience to National Commitments: Multilevel Climate Action for SDG Localization and NDC Implementation
24 Jun | 12:30–13:30
Lessons from Urban Vulnerability Assessments and Climate Resilience Planning – Scaling Interregional Exchange
Conference room 10 (CR10)
22 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Favela Climate Memory Exhibition
22 Jun | 12:00–13:00
Building urban resilience through co-creation: lessons from CLimate Adaptation and REsilience (CLARE) research projects
22 Jun | 13:05–13:30
Participatory Futuring for Informal Settlements and Booming Towns: Learning from African Cases
22 Jun | 16:30–17:30
2026 AI x City Climate Action Hackathon: Ideation Sprint Workshop
23 Jun | 10:45–11:10
Urban Climate Resilience During State Collapse: Grassroots Housing in Sudan
23 Jun | 11:15–12:15
Post-Conflict Cities, Climate Risk and Dark Heritage: Evidence for Resilient Urban Recovery
23 Jun | 12:20–12:45
Beyond the Concrete: Mapping ‘Shadow Infrastructure’ for Climate Resilience in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements
24 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Enablers for Urban Transformations toward Just and Climate-Resilient Futures
24 Jun | 12:00–13:00
From NDCs to Neighbourhoods: Building Urban Climate Governance through SURGE Regional Learning
24 Jun | 13:05–13:30
Global Ambition, Local Action: Local and Regional Governments’ Participation and Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Conference room 11 (CR11)
22 Jun | 11:30–11:55
The GHSL Urban Centre Database and WUP Projections contributing to a Global Data Coalition for Cities
22 Jun | 12:00–12:25
The Missing Link in Climate Action: Boundary Spanners connecting science, policy and practice
22 Jun | 12:30–12:55
Global Grant Call for System Demonstrators – co-designing a new funding instrument
22 Jun | 13:00–17:30
CDR workshop
23 Jun | 10:45–11:45
From Data to Action: What Is the Minimum Data Cities Need for Climate Planning? Lessons from an AI-Supported Tool
23 Jun | 11:45–12:45
Institutionalizing transformative science-society partnerships
23 Jun | 14:30–15:30
Unlocking Finance: From Innovative Instruments to Investable Urban Climate Portfolios
23 Jun | 17:00–17:25
Financing Urban Nature-Based Solutions: A Deal Room Approach
23 Jun | 17:30–18:30
Playing with Water: Sports infrastructure as Water-responsive Urbanism
23 Jun | 18:30–19:00
Planning the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus
24 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Urban Climate Action Beyond Templates: A Majority World Manifesto
24 Jun | 12:00–13:00
Youth-Led Climate Action in Cities: Using Data and Innovation to Build Sustainable Urban Futures.
24 Jun | 13:05–13:30
Climate Storytelling at Scale: Mokko City’s Creative Ecosystem Approach
Conference room 13 (CR13)
22 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Digital-First for Human Flourishing? Testing a New Approach to Sustainable Urban Development
22 Jun | 12:00–13:00
CDP Adaptation & Action Explorer Translating Climate Risk into Action and Investment signals for Subnational Governments
22 Jun | 13:05–13:30
Place-Based Digital and Energy Transitions for Resilient, Just and Sustainable Urban Development
22 Jun | 15:00–16:30
Making Climate-Smart Urban Projects Investable: Applying EDGE, BRI, and APEX
22 Jun | 16:30–17:30
FAO workshop
23 Jun | 10:45–11:10
The power of informality and local knowledge in advancing just climate transitions in African cities
23 Jun | 11:15–12:15
Justice and Resilience: Upscaling Original Peoples' Living Labs for Global South Urban Development
23 Jun | 12:20–12:45
From Vulnerability to Resilience: Students and Women Driving Urban Climate Action in East Africa
23 Jun | 14:30–15:00
Urban Climate Finance in the NDCs 3.0
23 Jun | 15:00–15:30
Strengthening Project Preparation for Subnational Climate Finance: A Systems and Operations Management Approach
23 Jun | 17:00–17:25
From Policy to Prototype: Advancing Disability Inclusion through Assistive Technology and Urban Innovation
23 Jun | 17:30–18:30
Co-Designing Gender-Equitable and Disability-Inclusive Climate Infrastructure
23 Jun | 18:35–19:00
Pathways for Disability-Inclusive Local Climate Action
24 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Scaling Carbon Removal in African Cities: From Pilots to public infrastructure
24 Jun | 12:00–12:25
City as a system: metabolism, resilience and sustainability
24 Jun | 12:30–12:55
Digital Intelligence for Climate Action: Trust, Equity, and Urban Resilience in the Age of AI
24 Jun | 13:00–13:25
People-Centered Smart Cities for Climate Resilience in African Cities: Bridging Innovation, Governance, and Inclusion
Conference room 14 (CR14)
22 Jun | 11:30–12:25
Unlocking Climate Action through Urban Law
22 Jun | 12:30–13:30
Source apportioned air pollution monitoring for Nairobi
22 Jun | 15:00–15:25
When Communities Lead: Evidence-Based River Regeneration Frameworks from Nairobi's Informal Settlements
22 Jun | 15:30–16:30
From Data to Implementation: Accelerating a Just Urban Energy Transition
22 Jun | 16:35–16:50
Creatives as Catalysts for Urban Peace and Inclusive City Development
23 Jun | 10:45–11:10
Greening cities as a strategic pathway for integrated urban resilience and sustainable development.
23 Jun | 11:15–11:40
How to create safer and healthier cities with connected and solar lighting using new financing mechanisms.
23 Jun | 11:45–12:10
Resilient ports for urban resilience: The importance climate risk assessment
23 Jun | 12:15–12:45
Urban greening for natural hazard mitigation: benefits and trade-offs
23 Jun | 14:30–15:30
Unlocking African Urban Resilience: Financial Intermediaries as Catalysts for Local Climate Action
24 Jun | 11:30–11:55
Harnessing Geospatial Intelligence for City Climate Action
24 Jun | 12:00–13:00
Leveraging GIS and AI for Climate-Ready Urban Futures
24 Jun | 13:05–13:30
Turning Climate Data into Early Action: Using GIS Climate Profiles to Inform Urban DRR and Anticipatory Action
Helipad Area
22 Jun | 18:00–20:00
Welcome reception
Press Room
22 Jun | 11:00–11:30
Press conference on the 2026 Innovate4Cities Conference (I4C26)
22 Jun | 12:00–12:30
SRCities for Journalists
Registration Tent
21 Jun | 09:00–15:00
On-site Accreditation
Wellness and Events Centre
23 Jun | 07:30–08:15