10:00 – 11:00 hrs EDT (16:00-17:00 hrs CET)
METREX is pleased to participate in the fourth Urban Economy Forum, represented by our President, Jakub Mazur
Over the years many funding programmes have been developed and deployed in Europe. But often these programmes followed the silos that our practice of urban development had grown into.
In the current situation, we must accelerate on adapting to climate change not only by ‘technical’ solutions for practical and direct problems, but also through soft policies that address societal changes needed to change our behaviour. And very recently, we have seen that the war in Ukraine is adding new constraints, such as in the supply of energy, but also in acute needs due to the huge number of refugees. There is a real danger that we will be rowing back on our efforts to create a sustainable environment.
The complexity does not only consist in finding the right solutions, but also in the integrated approach required to make these solutions add up and work most effectively.
This session will look at ways of financing sustainable urban development in Europe, on the various, existing levels, but also look at opportunities to better integrate on and between these levels to achieve better and quicker results.
We will learn from the level of the World Bank, looking at the European Funding programmes, the national level linking the EU Recovery and Resilience Funds to metropolitan and local level, and the local level in how to deal with national government budgets.
Finally, we will also learn from the huge challenges that the Ukrainian war and its consequent stream of refugees in Poland adds to the complexity of finding funds.
Programme
Moderator: Henk Bouwman, Secretary General, METREX
Henk Bouwman, Conclusions & further exchange opportunities Close
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