Where will you be in September 2024? The UrbanBetter and Lagos Cityzens Hub team has a series of upcoming events that we’ll be participating as speakers or moderators. Our goal is to highlight the importance of health for climate action.
UrbanBetter mobilises youth-led advocacy and cutting-edge technology to fight air pollution and climate risks in cities. Since 2023, its hubs have engaged hundreds of participants in nearly 70 kms of community-led runs, capturing over 150,000 air quality data points and raising global awareness at forums like COP27. By combining grassroots action with innovative solutions, UrbanBetter is creating scalable, transformative change for healthier urban environments.
The United Nations Summit of the Future will take place from the 22nd to the 23rd of September, focusing on multilateral cooperation and a “Pact for the Future” to address pressing global challenges. Concurrently, Climate Week NYC 2024 will run from 22 to 29 September, gathering world leaders, business executives, and activists to accelerate climate action through more than 600 events across the city
Where will we be?
Date: 17 September 2024
Event: UN Science Summit
Session: Reciprocity in Multilateral Research Collaboration
Time: 09:00 – 11:00
Speaker: Prof Tolullah Oni
The Summit will examine what enabling policy, regulatory and financial environments are needed to implement and sustain the science mechanisms required to support genuinely global scientific collaborations across continents, nations and themes. Scientific discovery through the analysis of massive data sets is at hand. This data-enabled approach to science, research and development will be necessary if the SDGs are to be achieved.
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Date: 19 September 2024
Event: Building Hopeful Futures Festival, an official side event of the UN Summit of the Future
Session: Hopeful & Healthy Futures: Perspectives from Africa and the Pacific
Time: 11:30 – 12:15
Speaker: Prof Tolullah Oni
Tolullah Oni will be presenting UrbanBetter Cityzens as part of talk on building healthy urban futures from Africa. This full-day event will take place in person in New York City and virtually, aiming to collect, share and connect your work for hopeful futures and intergenerational well-being over the past years and months in support of this moment.
Find out more here: https://soif.org.uk/foresight-innovations/summit-of-the-future-programme/
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Date: 19 September 2024
Event: Building Hopeful Futures Festival, an official side event of the UN Summit of the Future
Session: Bridging Generations: Ambition, Resilience and Indigenous Knowledge in a Changing World
Time: 11:30 – 12:15
Speaker: Waziri Mainasara (Virtual)
This full-day event will take place in person in New York City and virtually, aiming to collect, share and connect your work for hopeful futures and intergenerational well-being over the past years and months in support of this moment. Cityzens Lagos Hub Coordinator Waziri Mainasara will represent UrbanBetter Cityzens, the impact that has been achieved in Lagos thus far, and the future vision for Cityzens.
Find out more here: https://soif.org.uk/foresight-innovations/summit-of-the-future-programme/
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Date: 23 September 2024
Event: Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Summit
Session: Leveraging Cross-Sectoral Partnerships to Drive Healthier, More Sustainable, and Equitable Urban Futures
Time: 14:15 – 15:15
Speaker: Prof Tolullah Oni
Tolullah Oni will participate in this community roundtable highlighting opportunities for synergistic action on health and climate and the potential of youth as important stakeholders in decisions that shape the future of cities.
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Date: 23 September 2024
Event: Launch of a Global Citizens’ for People and Planet — a global citizens’ assembly for COP30 that will lay the foundations for a permanent global citizens’ assembly.
Session: Global Citizens’ Assembly for People and Planet
Time: 17:30 – 19:30
Speaker: Prof Tolullah Oni
Tolullah Oni will be speaking on the potential and importance of citizen-generated data in building locally and globally-connected participation in decision-making processes. And why such an approach is crucial to informing both the development of global governance processes and the effective and contextual localisation of these global agenda
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Date: 24 September 2024
Event: Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Summit
Session: Technology and Nature at the Forefront of Tomorrow’s Cities (Spotlight session at CGI summit)
Time: 14:30 – 15:30
Moderator: Prof Tolullah Oni
The Clinton Global Initiative brings together leaders from business, government, and civil society to address global issues like climate resilience, inclusive economic growth, health equity, gender equality, and crisis response. Prof. Tolullah Oni will moderate a high-level panel of speakers in a spotlight session focused on strategies for developing healthy, sustainable, and equitable cities worldwide. The session will be open to the press and recorded.
Find out more: https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative-september-2024-meeting#agenda/
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Date: 25 September 2024
Event: Canopy Programme (invite-only networking event)
Session: Canopy Tomorrow Party (AMNH/Wellcome Trust)
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Invited Participant: Prof Tolullah Oni
This event invites participants to “time travel” to COP30 in Belém, envisioning playful and collaborative approaches to a healthier future. It includes refreshments, a session on global climate collaboration, and a public panel on “Healthier Futures in a Changing Climate,” moderated by Sean Decatur. A reception with food and drinks follows. This is followed by a public panel discussion entitled Healthier Futures in a Changing Climate, moderated by Sean Decatur, President of the American Museum of Natural History.
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Date: 25 September 2024
Event: TBC
Session: Canopy Panel
Time: 18:00 – 19:00
Speaker: Prof Tolullah Oni
This is followed by a public panel discussion entitled Healthier Futures in a Changing Climate, moderated by Sean Decatur, President of the American Museum of Natural History.
