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Water availability, city warmth island impact, and vitality use are main issues shared by desert cities around the globe. Taking place on fifth and sixth March 2024 at Expo 2023 Doha Qatar, the AIPH Green City Conference will showcase city greening methods that cities in arid zones can undertake to create habitable environments.
The Conference is organised by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) with the help of Host Expo 2023 Doha Qatar and Headline Sponsor Biblo. Prominent audio system from around the globe will current on the Conference theme of ‘metropolis greening options for arid environments’.
In the opening session, AIPH is happy to welcome Prof David Simon, Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Prof Simon’s analysis focuses on cities, local weather change and sustainability, and the relationships between improvement concept, coverage and apply. His latest e book ‘Sustainable Human Settlements throughout the Global Urban Agenda’ explores the dynamics of the UN’s SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities – and the way it’s understood in numerous regional and nationwide contexts. This opening presentation will showcase Prof Simon’s work with Earthna on arid cities.
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Qatar
The second speaker within the opening session is Kishor Rajhansa, Chief Operating Officer of the Global Carbon Council (GCC). Based in Qatar, Mr Rajhansa is a local weather change, vitality, and sustainability chief with 28 years of expertise. He is liable for working GCC, a carbon-offsetting programme that assists organisations in decreasing their carbon footprint. This is achieved by growing stringent however simplified requirements and establishing clear certification processes.
Jordan’s dry local weather design
During the second session, the Conference will give attention to native and regional initiatives that fight challenges that come up in desert cities. Founder and Chair of the Society of Sustainability & Green Materials (SSGM), Dr Ali Al Jassim will current the non-profit’s work to lift consciousness and enhance data sharing in sustainability, inexperienced supplies, and round financial system within the UAE. The Society’s work includes supporting the event of insurance policies and laws that advance these objectives.
The Fog Collection Project efficiently collected 350,000 gallons of water from fog throughout the Khareef. In Doha
Joining Dr Al Jassim on 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 inspire the main focus of greening to transcend the bodily area to embrace intangible processes and contemplate perceptual and emotional views of city nature. Through this, a permanent stewardship of pure assets in cities and globally might be achieved. Dr Saeed Alhassan Alkhazraji continues the theme of caring for pure assets to explain modern analysis for fixing water points utilizing nature. Technologies developed at Manhat produce water by mimicking the pure water cycle.
Doha Tower
The points confronted by arid cities will not be distinctive. In the afternoon session of the Conference, audio system from different areas will current the dwelling inexperienced options being employed to fight shared points. Speakers will showcase the initiatives being employed to mitigate city warmth in Asia, re-naturing cities by means of nature-based options, and the way AI can supply easy accessibility to nature information.
Conference audio system embrace:
- Prof. David Simon, Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, and writer of ‘Sustainable Human Settlements throughout the Global Urban Agenda’
- Kishor Rajhansa, Chief Operating Officer, Global Carbon Council
- Dr Ali Al Jassim, Chair of the Society of Sustainability & Green Materials (SSGM)
- Jala Makhzoumi, Vice President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) and Acting President of IFLA Middle East
- Huda Shaka, Director of Urban Strategy and Planning, Gehl
- Dr Saeed Alhassan Alkhazraji, Founder, Manhat
- Dr Mario V Balzan, Senior Lecturer on the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST), and Managing Director at Ecostack Innovations
- Diane Lee, Media Relations Manager – Asia Region, AIPH
- Thomas Gooch – Founder/CEO of Office of Planetary Observations (OPO)
On the second day of the Conference, on sixth March 2024, delegates will go to key inexperienced metropolis websites within the Doha municipality. For extra details about the audio system and this system, and to e book your home at this inspiring assembly, go to the AIPH Website.
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