< 'Eg' magazine reviews the Future Cities final conference
04.07.2013 09:49 Age: 12 yrs

The Future of our Cities – Make them attractive and climate-proof: Conference proceedings available now


Hastings on the South East England coast, has hosted over 120 delegates from across Europe to mark the completion of the Future Cities project funded by the European Union. Its theme was how our cities and towns can adapt to the climate change we know is occurring but also how we can all reduce its severity.

The conference was held in the Sussex Exchange, a new sustainable conference centre part-funded by the EU programme.

Conference attendees included planners, engineers, urban designers, developers and climate change experts, from across northern Europe. Key speakers included Cllr Jeremy Birch, Leader of Hastings Borough Council; Tim Reeder, the Regional Climate Change Programme Manager in the South East region of the Environment Agency, Katharine Knox, Policy and Research Programme Manager – Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Raimund Echterhoff, Board Member of the German water board “Lippeverband”, Ruut Louwers from the European Union's Interreg programme, and Johan Bogaert, Flemish government, department Environment, Nature and Energy and Alexander Ferstl from the EU Commission’s DG Climate Action as well as Birgit Georgi from the European Environment Agency.

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