C40 Large Cities Climate Summit: Welcome Reception

9:18 PM EDT on May 3, 2007

From May 14 â€“ May 17, 2007, leaders of municipal governments and international businesses from over thirty world cities will convene in New York City for the second C40 Large Cities Climate Summit. Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the worldâ€™s energy consumption, and as such, the worldâ€™s largest cities have a critical role to play in the reduction of carbon emissions and the reversal of dangerous climate change.

On the evening of May 14, senior representatives of New York City business and government will welcome delegates to the summit in one of the world's greenest buildings.

Who's Coming?

Mayor Birhane Deressa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Mayor Will Winn, Austin, United States
Governor Apirak Kosayodhin, Bangkok, Thailand
Mayor Klaus Wowereit, Berlin, Germany
Mayor Luis Eduardo Garzon, BogotÃ¡, Colombia
Mayor Richard M. Daley, Chicago, United States
Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mayor Beto Richa, Curitiba, Brazil
Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit, Delhi, India
Mayor Bill White, Houston, United States
Mayor Kadir Topbas, Istanbul, Turkey
Mayor Amos Masondo, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal, Karachi, Pakitstan
Governor Bola Tinubu, Lagos, Nigeria
Mayor Oscar Castaneda Lossio, Lima, Peru
Mayor Ken Livingstone, London, United Kingdom
Mayor Antonio Villaragoisa, Los Angeles, United States
Lord Mayor John So, Melbourne, Australia
Mayor Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Mexico City, Mexico
Mayor Shubha Umesh Raul, Mumbai, India
Mayor Ray C. Nagin, New Orleans, United States
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, New York, United States
Mayor Bertrand DelanoÃ«, Paris, France
Mayor John Street, Philadelphia, United States
Mayor Cesar Maia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mayor Ivo Opstelten, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Mayor Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake City, United States
Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco, United States
Mayor Gilberto Kassab, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mayor Greg Nickels, Seattle, United States
Mayor Oh Se-hoon, Seoul, South Korea
Lord Mayor Clover Moore, Sydney, Australia
Governor Shintaro Ishihara, Tokyo, Japan
Mayor David Miller, Toronto, Canada

Other City Delegations

Barcelona, Spain
Beijing, China
Cairo, Egypt
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Jakarta, Indonesia
Madrid, Spain
Portland, United States
Rome, Italy
Moscow, Russia
Shanghai, China
Stockholm, Sweden
Warsaw, Poland

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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