PARALLEL SESSION 8 (By invite only) | Jointly organised by C40 Cities and NIUA
C40 Cities and the National Institute of Urban Affairs are jointly convening a closed-door roundtable to bring together key stakeholders to discuss how climate can be systematically mainstreamed into city procurement systems across India. The roundtable aims to:
- Identify key drivers, enablers and priority areas for action to mainstream climate into city procurement.
- Identify how existing programmes, resources, frameworks and partnerships can be strengthened and better aligned to support cities.
- Agree on priority actions, potential partners and next steps to scale up climate mainstreaming in city procurement.
Facilitator
- Pramod Singh, AEEE
Opening remarks
- Dr. Debolina Kundu, National Institute of Urban Affairs
Roundtable speakers
- Nikhil Kolsepatil, ICLEI South Asia
- Praveen Soma, Principal Counsellor- CII, IGBC, GreenPro, Building Projects, Confederation of Indian Industries, GreenPro and IGBC
- Himanshu Gulliani, Executive Vice President, National Bank for Financing Infrastructure & Development (NABFID)
- Rahul Srivastav, Vice President, National Bank for Financing Infrastructure & Development (NABFID)
- Sanjay Shukla, Managing Director, National Housing Bank
- Aditya Sharma, Executive Director, PwC- PCMC
- N. Mohan, Director (S&L), Bureau of Energy Efficiency
- Ritika Kapoor, NRDC India
- Akash Goenka, NRDC India
- Anil Kumar Choudhary, Chief General Manager (Technical), EESL
- Adesh Saxena, GM, EESL
- Kiran Avadhanula, KfW
- Rakshada Rode, WRI India
- Dr. Teresa Kerber, Project Director- Gender in Smart Cities / Resilient Urban Development: Gender and Digital Approaches as drivers for sustainable growth and recovery in Cities (GRC)
- Vibhor Sood, Environmental Policy, Resources Efficiency Advisor, GIZ India