Arvind Kejriwal with other Four Urban World Leaders to Speak at the Prestigious Daring Cities 2020

CM Arvind Kejriwal has been invited among five urban leaders from around the world to speak at a prestigious forum, Daring Cities 2020, on 7th October 2020. Other four leaders alongside urban leaders and decision-makers from Bogota (Colombia), Sao Paolo (Brazil), Los Angles (USA) and Entebbe (Uganda) to discuss multilevel action to tackle the climate emergency and environmental sustainability. The event recognizes these five as daring urban leaders who are going beyond the limits imposed by their respective local contexts to take bold climate action.

The conference is being hosted by ICLEI and the City of Bonn, Germany, with the support of the German government. Daring Cities is a global forum on climate change for urban leaders tackling the climate emergency, especially in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

As a leader making tireless efforts in working towards sustainable development of Delhi, CM Kejriwal will speak on how Delhi has responded to the existing climate emergency, air pollution crisis including recent innovative solutions such as the Pusa decomposer and the first-of-its-kind EV policy in India to tackle air pollution in the national capital.

This session will be held on 7th October 2020 at 7.30 pm through a virtual forum. The distinguished urban and subnational leaders from Latin America, Africa, North America, and Asia will also present their thoughts on the most essential changes that should be achieved in their respective city/region in the next 5 years so that their plans to tackle climate emergencies are accelerated.

Speaking in the plenary session, CM Arvind Kejriwal will be addressing an international and multidisciplinary audience of over one thousand mayors and city councilors, urban thought leaders, national government representatives, researchers, business leaders and community organizers from all around the world. The plenary session will also include keynote addresses by Mr António Guterres, UN Secretary General, and H.E. Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Germany.