Hosted by UN-Habitat and the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM), and co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Innovate4Cities Conference 2021 was a multidisciplinary virtual conference that ran across all time zones around the world from October 11-15. The conference brought together session hosts and participants from science, innovation, policy, and practice united by the common objective of enabling local governments to implement accelerated and more ambitious climate action, based on an understanding of the latest climate change science.
In addition to the sessions organised by Melbourne Centre for Cities staff, the Centre also coordinated a Student Writing Team consisting of 32 university students, from the Bachelor to the Doctorate level, from 17 countries across all world regions. Members of the team attended a pre-conference induction meeting and post-conference writing workshop, documented all 300+ conference sessions, and led the production of two written outputs: a student-led conference report and a brief containing key messages from the conference to bring to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (or ‘COP26’) in Glasgow, November 2021.
Student Writing Team Members
Anupriya Aggarwal | School of Planning and Architecture, New DelhiLuis Felipe
Álvarez Vega | Universidad de Costa Rica
Olutomiwa Binuyo | University of the Western Cape
Joseph David Calara | University of Melbourne
Ishita Das | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Taylah Emmanouel | University of Melbourne
Joseph Fenwick | University College London
Kate Field | University of Melbourne
Heesu Jeon | University College London
Abel Kiprono | University of Nairobi
Skye Li | University of Melbourne
Boyu Liu | Auburn UniversityHope McGee | University College London
Yuan Meng | University College London
Padmapriya Muralidharan | Australian National University
Ilma Nafees | Jamia Millia Islamia
Zipporah Njenga | Mount Kenya University
Samara Polwatta | University of Bonn
Harry Quail | University of Melbourne
Martina Razzaboni | Università degli Studi di Siena
Asala Safwat | University College London
Edward Senkondo | University College Dublin
Bryant M. Serre | McGill University
Ellen Sharpe | University of Melbourne
Emma Su | Columbia University
Sadaf Taimur | University of Tokyo
Enrico Trevisi | University College London
Rachel Williams | Wageningen University
Alemayehu Agizew Woldeamanuel | Addis Ababa University
Xueting Yang | University College London
Amber Young | University of Melbourne
Rachaya Youngrod | University of Melbourne
Outputs
Dickey, A. (ed.), Oke, C. (ed.), Aggarwal, A., Álvarez Vega, L.F., Binuyo, O., Calara, J.D., Das, I., Emmanouel, T., Fenwick, J., Field, K., Jeon, H., Kiprono, A., Li, S., Liu, B., McGee, H., Meng, Y., Muralidharan, P., Nafees, I., Njenga, Z., Polwatta, S., Quail, H., Razzaboni, M., Safwat, A., Senkondo, E., Serre, B., Sharpe, E., Su, E., Taimur, S., Trevisi, E., Williams, R., Woldeamanuel, A. A., Yang, X., Young, A., & Youngrod, R. (2021). COP26 Insights from the Innovate4Cities Conference 2021: Student-Led Briefing Report. Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne.
Dickey, A. (ed.), Oke, C. (ed.), Aggarwal, A., Álvarez Vega, L.F., Binuyo, O., Calara, J.D., Das, I., Emmanouel, T., Fenwick, J., Field, K., Jeon, H., Kiprono, A., Li, S., Liu, B., McGee, H., Meng, Y., Muralidharan, P., Nafees, I., Njenga, Z., Polwatta, S., Quail, H., Razzaboni, M., Safwat, A., Senkondo, E., Serre, B., Sharpe, E., Su, E., Taimur, S., Trevisi, E., Williams, R., Woldeamanuel, A.A., Yang, X., Young, A.., & Youngrod, R. (2021). Innovate4Cities Conference 2021: Student-Led Final Report. Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne.