Venue: Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina (Medicine School Palace),

República de Brasil 33, Cuauhtémoc, 06020 Mexico City.

Date: 21st November 2010

08:00 – 09:00 Registry

09:00 Plenary session

09:00 – 09:20 Opening Remarks

Mr. Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon

Chair, World Mayors Council on Climate Change
and Mayor of Mexico City
Mr. David Cadman
President, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability and Councillor
of Vancouver
Mr. Bertrand Delanoë
Mayor of Paris and Former President of UCLG
Elected President
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

9:20 – 9:55 Remarks from Special Guests

Mrs. Christiana Figueres

Executive Secretary , United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
 Mrs. Cecilia Martínez Leal
Director UN-Habitat/ROLAC (With the message on behalf of
Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General, UN)
Mr. Carlos Slim
Chair, Carso Group
Mr. Michel Delebarre
President, COTER, Committee of the Regions, European Union
Mr. Cassam Uteem
Representative of Club Madrid, Ex Mayor of Port Louis,
Ex Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius
Mrs. Beatriz Bugeda
NGO Representative

9:55 – 10:00 Appointment ceremony of Mayor Marcelo Ebrard as

Global Champion for the UNMaking Cities Resilient Campaign

Mrs. Margareta Wahlström

United Nations Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR

10:00 – 10:10 Reading of The Global Cities Covenant on Climate

(The Mexico City Pact)

Mr. Gabriel Sánchez Díaz

Chair, The Think Foundation. Planet Politics Person

10:10 – 10:20 The Carbonn Cities Climate Registry

Mr. Konrad Otto Zimmermann

Secretary General, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability
Mr. Arab Hoballah
Chief of Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch, UNEP

10:20 – 10:30 Signature of The Global Cities Covenant on Climate

(The Mexico City Pact)
10:30 - 10:40 Reading of Cities who have signed The Global Cities
Covenant on Climate (The Mexico City Pact)

10:40 – 11:00 Break (refreshments)

11:00 - 11:05 Video Message

Mr. Maurice Strong

Chairman, Board of Directors, University for Peace, UN

11:05 – 13:10 Remarks from Mayors (2´per Mayor)

Interventions of Mayors on behalf of Mayors Associations

Mr. Michel Destot

President, Association of Large Cities in France, and Mayor of Grenoble
Mrs. Elizabeth Kautz
President, US Conference of Mayors (USCM), and Mayor of Burnsville
Mr. Nkosiyakhe Amos Masondo
National Chairperson South African Local Government Association
(SALGA), and Mayor of Johannesburg
Mr. Jean Marc Ayrault
President, Climate Negotiations Group of UCLG, and Mayor of Nantes
Mr. Ayodele Adewale
Chairman, Nigerian Mayors Alliance on Climate Change (NiMACC),
and Mayor of Amuwo Odofin

Remarks from Mayors

Mayors from Africa
Mayors from North America
Mayors from Central America and the Caribbean
Mayors from South America
Mayors from Asia
Mayors from Europe
Mayors from East Europe
 Mayors from the Middle East
Mayors from Oceania
Mayors from South East Asia

13:10 – 13:20 Conclusions and perspectives of the Summit

Ms. Martha Delgado Peralta

Vice President of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability,
and Secretary for the Environment of Mexico City

13:20 – 13:30 Closing of the Plenary Session

Mr. Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon

Chairman, World Mayors Council on Climate Change,
and Mayor of Mexico City

13:30 - 14:00 Press time for Mayors

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:00 Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3

Science Financing The Climate Change Challenge

Panel 1
Panel on Climate Science and Cities

Moderator:
Ms. Blanca Jiménez Cisneros

Participants:
• Ms. Cynthia Rosenzweig
Columbia University
• Ms. Lamia Kamal - Chaoui
Head Urban Development Programme, OCDE
• Ms. Penny D Sackett
Chief Scientist for Australia
• Ms. Judy Baker
Lead Economist, Finance, Economics and Urban Department, World Bank
• Ms. María Amparo Martínez Arroyo
Director, The Athmospheric Sciences Centre, UNAM

Panel 2
Panel on Financing for Climate Change in Cities

Moderator:
Mr. Gabriel Quadri

Participants:

• Mr. Pedro Miranda

Director, Business Strategy and Development, Siemens AG
• Mr. Carlos Tavares
Chairman, MC-A Nissan Americas
• Mrs. Genevieve Ferone
Director, Sustainable Development, Veolia Environnement
Medio Ambiente
• Ms. Abha Joshi-Ghani
Sector Manager, Urban Development and local Government the World Bank
• Mr. Ellis Juan
Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank in Mexico

Panel 3
The Climate Change Challenge
Moderator:
Dr. Javier Elguea Solís
Dean, Technological Institute of TELMEX
Dr. Gerardo Ceballos González
Researcher, Institute of Ecology UNAM
 Mr. Omar Vidal
General Director, WWF Mexico
Mr. Andrés Vázquez del Mercado
Commercial Director of Residential Market, Telmex

16:00 – 16:15 Signature of the Agreement to Introduce Electric Vehicles

in Mexico City

Nissan Stand, Plaza de Santo Domingo

16:15 – 17:15 Presentation of the Green Index of Latin American Cities.

The Economist Institute

Smart Grid Dome, Siemens. Plaza 23 de Mayo

Nov. 20 Centennial Celebration of the Mexican Revolution

20:00 Revolution Monument, República Square.

Nov. 20 Wellcome dinner, offered by HSBC

Special
Events

21:00 - 22:30 Torre HSBC, Reforma ave 347

WMSC Closing Cocktails

Nov. 21
Offered by Veolia Environnement, Proactiva
19:30 - 22:30
Medio Ambiente & Mexico City Government
Piso 51, Torre Mayor, Reforma ave 505