H2O availability , urban heat island effect , and energy use are major fear deal by desert city around the world . Taking home on March 5 and 6 , 2024 , at Expo 2023 Doha Qatar , the AIPH Green City Conference will showcase urban greening strategies that cities in arid zones can acquire to make livable environments .
In the opening session , AIPH is proud of to welcome Prof David Simon , Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway , University of London . Prof Simon ’s research pore on cities , climate variety , and sustainability and the relationships between development theory , insurance policy , and practice . His late book ' Sustainable Human Settlements within the Global Urban Agenda ' explores the dynamic of the UN ’s SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities – and how it is understood in different regional and national contexts . This opening presentation will showcase Prof Simon ’s study with Earthna on arid metropolis .
The second loudspeaker system in the opening session is Kishor Rajhansa , Chief Operating Officer of the Global Carbon Council ( GCC ) . free-base in Qatar , Mr Rajhansa is a mood modification , energy , and sustainability leader with 28 years of experience . He is creditworthy for operating GCC , a carbon offsetting program that assists organization in reducing their carbon footprint . This is achieved by developing stringent but simplified standards and base transparent certification process .
During the second session , the Conference will rivet on local and regional initiative that combat challenge that move up in desert cities . Founder and Chair of the Society of Sustainability & Green Materials ( SSGM ) , Dr Ali Al Jassim , will present the non - net income ’s body of work to rear cognizance and meliorate knowledge share-out in sustainability , green materials , and rotary economy in the UAE . The Society ’s work involve supporting the development of policy and regulations that advance these destination .
Joining Dr Al Jassim in this session is Jala Makhzoumi , Vice President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects ( IFLA ) and Acting President of IFLA Middle East . In her presentation , Ms. Makhzoumi will motivate the focus of greening to go beyond the strong-arm space to bosom impalpable processes and consider perceptual and aroused perspectives of urban nature . Through this , an enduring stewardship of natural resource in cities and globally can be attain . Dr. Saeed Alhassan Alkhazraji keep on the paper of caring for natural resources to key innovational enquiry for solving pee issues using nature . engineering developed at Manhat produce water by mimic the rude H2O cycle .
The issues confront by arid metropolis are not alone . In the good afternoon session of the Conference , talker from other regions will demo the survive green solutions being employed to combat shared issue . Speakers will showcase the initiatives being hire to mitigate urban heat energy in Asia , re - naturing cities through nature - establish solution , and how AI can offer gentle access to nature data .
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On the 2nd day of the Conference , on March 6 2024 , delegates will visit fundamental green metropolis sites in the Doha municipality .
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