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Mapping the research outcomes of ESG4C Research Conference #1
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Mapping results Research Conference 13.09.2023
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Reflection Florian Wupperfeld (Founder of the ESG Innovation Collective)
"The last two days here in Amsterdam at the ECG Innovation Collective were for me extremely interesting because it was at the first time where we brought together public sector and private sector partners and we realized that them engaging with each other has a bigger impact for each one of them because we're all wondering how ESG will impact our lives. How the S will impact our lives and from all the different stakeholders we've learned that they're all kind of somehow struggling and asking themselves the same questions we're all kind of looking at the terminologies and what everything means and I feel like you know after these two days we've built a little ecosystem between Berlin between Amsterdam our partners from private sector, Barcelona, Marseille, different cities. I think it's been really great and I want to thank everybody to be part of it and we're looking forward to see you again in early November here in Amsterdam."
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Reflection Prof. Dr. Caroline Nevejan (Chief Science Officer City of Amsterdam)
"Climate adaptation has huge impact on how we live together where we live
together what we can do and cannot do. The coming ESG framework is an opportunity for cities to engage in an other way with the private Partners in our territories in our regions in our cities in our villages. The current investment that cities need to do to keep the streets you know that there's no water flooding when there is a rain falling, that the urban heat is not too high, that people who live in small houses can handle the heat if it happens. So there are huge issues that climate change forces as challenges which are new in cities which have huge social impact on how people live together that we don't know how to fix sometimes but also if we know how we need really new partners to help us do it. So the private sector has to engage with the public sector and the Civic sector.
What's great is that we now have this new ESG framework and these new regulations in Europe where private sectors are acquired required to report on what they do on the social impact that they have the social impact that also has been affected a lot by the E by the environmental impact that's currently happening all over the globe and what you see is that this new framework offers an opportunity to engage in new Partnerships with new benefits both for the private sector and no benefits for the social sector and the cultural sector.
What I found really special to see in the last few days is that we have gathered a lot of practices a lot of insight and between all those practices you could really feel that
such an ESG for cities framework it will work and it will offer the opportunity that we hope. So I'm very happy and also want to thank all the colleagues who have engaged with us from the different cities all over the world, even Willemstad from Curacao was present and I look forward to do this with a lot of us in the future in the near future. We don't have so much time to develop this so yeah I look forward very much and I
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Reflection Alexei Novikov (President & co-founder of Habidatum)
"It's been extremely interesting, as an urbanist I love multifaceted subjects and ESG is extremely multifaceted subject so well from very conceptual end down to very concrete and so we were somewhere in the middle and what actually I loved the most: so we figured out who these stakeholders are and how they communicate one with the others so while this is that was the missing part of the equation for me and I figured out now how it could work and what could interest who so that's exactly what I get as a something innovative and something completely new to me"
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Reflection Berci Florian (Program Manager Social Port City, City of Amsterdam)
"What I found really amazing in the past days with all our colleagues and partners from Berlin is that in the past few months we've been researching what everybody is doing on sustainable programs and projects and they're doing it all from different perspectives of course. One is working on Urban Land Development the other in real estate projects the other is in in procurement on big engineering projects but what was so nice to see is that we are all working on the same purpose but we just have to synchronize our timelines. Everybody has a different point in time where they think they have to do their thing as actually the biggest challenge is to connect these dots in time and really start collaborating together. Not only professionally but also with the people in the areas that we are working for"