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Megacities and Climate Change
Mexico City, 16-22 November 2008
In November 2008 over 150 LEAD Fellows, Associates and staff attended the LEAD International Session on Megacities and Climate Change which was held at the Xochitla Nature Reserve in Mexico City. The session was divided into four thematic areas: Water Sanitation, Energy Production and Consumption, Land Use and Urban Development and Transport and Urban Mobility.
For a report on the highlights of the International Session click here.
LEAD International Session was sponsored by:
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA)-International Development Research Centre,
Shell,
Defra,
Embassy of Canada,
DFID,
The Commonwealth Foundation.
Partners were:
Mexico City Government,
Municipality of Tepotzotlan,
Urban Age Programme,
LSE,
El Colegio de Mexico,
Norwich Business School,
CSR360,
Xochitla Ecological Park.
Applications for the LEAD Europe Programme in 2009 are still open.
Scholarships are now available!
In 2009, Associates will go on a learning journey from London – Brussels – China to view sustainability issues on national, regional, and international levels. The focus will be on climate change, the European Union, international collaboration, the role of rapidly developing countries (such as China), low carbon solutions in our current economic climate, and core leadership skills. Graduates from the programme join a unique network of 2000 cross-sector professionals in 90 countries, all dedicated to motivating change for a sustainable future.
The programme begins in June 2009 with the first of three residential events over nine months:
- London: Leadership and Climate Change: Towards a Low Carbon Society
(5 days, 29 June – 3 July 2009)
- Brussels: The EU and Leadership Towards a Sustainable Future
(5 days, 7 – 11 September 2009)
- Beijing – Leadership and Climate Change: Impacts, Innovation and Interdependence
(7 days, 8 – 14 November 2009)
Do you want to be a leader in a sustainable world?
Visit http://www.lead.org/page/174 for more information,
or contact us at: europe2009@lead.org,
T + 44 (0) 207 938 8720.
Application deadline 15 April 2009.
Applications Open for LEAD Training 2009 – FIND OUT MORE!
LEAD offers training in ‘Leadership for Sustainable Development’ all over the world. Our programmes in, Canada, Europe, India, Mexico, Southern and Eastern Africa are now open for applications.
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LEAD facilitated workshop at The IUCN World Conservation Congress
In October 2008 the International Institute for Sustainable Development organized an Alliance Workshop on “Supporting the Next Generation of Sustainable Development Leadership”.
This workshop took place at the IUCN Congress in Barcelona in partnership with the following institutions IUCN:WWCP, IUCN:CEC, WWF, LEAD International, RAMSAR, IIED and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
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IFC workshop, 4 December 2008
 Following the successful edition in April 2008, LEAD International hosted LEAD Europe Fellow Mehrdad Nazari, Director and Senior ESIA & CSR Advisor of Prizma LLC, who delivered a 1-day short course on Equator Principles & IFC(International Finance Corporation) Performance Standards.
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First GRI-certified training on sustainable reporting in Canada
Amsterdam, Ormstown, Vancouver - December 11, 2008
LEAD Canada Inc has become the first North American organization certified by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to provide GRI certified courses on GRI’s sustainable reporting framework in Canada. GRI has pioneered the development of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework. This framework sets out the principles and indicators that organizations can use to measure and report their economic, environmental, and social performance. Nelmara Arbex, Training Director of GRI noted that “the certified training initiative was designed to create a common language on organization’s sustainability performance and measurements all around the world, it will support Canadian report makers and users to utilize the GRI framework’s last version and further increase its uptake.”
Course participants will receive their successful completion certificates directly from GRI.
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Sustainable Development Dialogues Focus Group in Mexico
LEAD International is delivering a range of activities for UK Defra Sustainable Development Dialogues (SDD) which aims at promoting good governance in global sustainable development through mutual learning and joint projects on priority areas. LEAD is engaging with LEAD Fellows to provide feedback on key themes, issues and challenges of the SDD initiative. Consultations with the wider Network took place a month ago and a Focus Group session was run during the International Session in Mexico.
LEAD Cote d’Ivoire- Amnesty International cooperation
On 15 November, 2008 LEAD Cote d’Ivoire Association and Amnesty International
Cote d’Ivoire and American Corner held a training workshop on the theme: “What kind of leadership for A.I C.I.’ s youth?”
As part of a capacity- building programme for young leaders and members of associations, the workshop was led by HOUANGO Hervé-Joel, LEAD C.I. Coordinator and Cohort 10 Fellow.
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The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland - COP 14
LEAD side event at COP14 in Poznan
 The 14th session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 14) took place in conjunction with the 4th Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 4) in Poznań, Poland, from 1 to 12 December 2008. The conference included the 29th sessions of the Convention’s two subsidiary bodies - SBSTA and SBI – as well as the 4th session of the AWG-LCA and the 2nd part of the 6th session of the AWG-KP.
LEAD ran a side event during the conference on Saturday 6 December to investigate the capacity building needs around the important issues of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).
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LEAD Publication on Megacities and Climate Change
 LEAD Publication on Megacities and Climate Change, collaboratively written by 8 LEAD Fellows, has been launched during the IS. This study explores the linkages between leadership and climate change in a rapidly urbanising world.
Fellows involved in the project are: Theresa Subban, Tiyok Prasetyoadi, Erin Silsbe, Patricia Avila Garcia, Bharati Chaurvedi, Melita Rogelj, Nick Harrison.
To download the full text, click here.
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Fellows participated in the 8th edition of the Urban Age Conference, held in Sao Paulo.
Due to a partnership between LEAD International and the London School of Economics, 11 LEAD Fellows were invited to attend the 8th edition of the Urban Age Conference, an interdisciplinary research series on the future of cities, held in Sao Paulo , 4-5 December 2008.
The conference was an opportunity for discussions on climate change and megacities, the central theme of the LEAD International Seminar held in Mexico City in November.
Fellows who attended the event: Thais Corral, Cíntia Bonder, Maria Zulmira de Souza, Maria Lídia Bueno Fernandes, Ana Leonardo Nassar De Oliveira, Talita Montiel Oliveira, Mariana Paál Fernandes, Fabiano Rangel, Luiz Bouabci, Prasetyoadi (Tiyok) , Patricia Romero Lankao.
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LEAD´s Projects Around the World |
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Participatory Governance in Conservation Units in Brazil
 Throughout 2008, ABDL/ LEAD Brazil and the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve (RBMA) executed a Capacity Building Programme on Participatory Governance in Conservation Units (CUs) of the Atlantic Forest.
The project was intended to support the implementation of participatory governance envisaged in the National System of Conservation Units (SNUC), strengthening the collective dimension of learning and finding shared solutions to recurring problems in the management of CUs of the Atlantic Forest.
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Developing Sustainable Business (DSB)
Reaching out to the Business Community for Sustainable Development - LEAD Indonesia
Since 2005 LEAD Indonesia through its host, The Foundation for Sustainable Development, has been conducting a programme to reach business communities, Developing Sustainable Business or DSB. The programme is to incorporate sustainability tools into the corporate business strategy. AtKisson Group has accredited the foundation as the only institution in Indonesia to disseminate its sustainability tools using AtKisson attribute.
The DSB Program was initially supported by LEAD International in partnership with three companies (mining, plantation and power plant). Today the British Embassy has been supporting the programme with a new budget to work with five more companies until 2009. For an article about the latest DSB programme, please click here.
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Bridging Leadership project update. Aceh, Indonesia
The Bridging Leadership Aceh Project continues to grow. We now have a dedicated core of young people mid-way through their training and ready to experience real-world action for sustainable development as they embark on internships with established NGOs working in renewable energy, women’s rights, organic agriculture and more.
Post-tsunami redevelopment in Aceh offers an opportunity to build a more sustainable and better quality way of life for communities there. Our trainees are perfectly placed to encourage their communities to play an active role in how that redevelopment proceeds.
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LEAD-DFID Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Building Project in Africa
In August, LEAD International, LEAD Francophone Africa and LEAD Southern and Eastern Africa launched a collaborative project to building adaptive capacity to climate change in Africa. The three year project (2008-2011) is funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and will be implemented in ten local communities in Bakel (Senegal) and Kayes (Mali), as well as two other districts in Malawi, Chikwawa and Nsanje.
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