Innovate4Cities Student Writing Team

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.