2016 Barbara Ward Lecture: Debra Roberts
Channel: IIED
Date: 2016-10-12

Policymakers, researchers and academics gathered in London on 11 October to hear urban climate action champion Debra Roberts give the 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture. She called for more to be done to join the dots between the 'New Urban Agenda', being prepared for Habitat III, and the realities of implementation at the local level.

Roberts heads up the Sustainable and Resilient City Initiatives portfolio in eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa, while also co-chairing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group 2 on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (IPCC WG2).

The Barbara Ward Lecture is hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development and features the current generation of outstanding women in development.

Speakers have featured former Ireland President Mary Robinson; Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action; South Africa MP Lindiwe Sisulu, and Cristiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Fatima Denton, special projects director of UNECA.

More details: www.iied.org/BW2016.