The GEO for Cities on 9th October 2020 held a successful event at Daring Cities 2020 titled ‘vision and pathway related to circular cities’. Daring Cities is a virtual, action-oriented forum to recognize and empower courageous urban leaders, including mayors and other decision-makers, technical staff, researchers, private sector representatives, and community organizers to disrupt business-as-usual and shift towards business-as possible. Around 150 participants joined the webinar and had great discussions on the messages from the report with the Co-chairs and authors from GEO for Cities. The recording of the event can be found here.
The GEO for Cities report is still in the drafting process after the Advisory Committee had an internal review of the document and provided high level comments on current draft. The Advisory Committee congratulated the authors and co-chairs on the progress made in the drafting process. Details of the COVID-19 pandemic have been included at the beginning of the draft, although the narrative and its inter-connectedness with resource consumption and inequality could be strengthened a little more in the document.
The Co-chairs of the report will work on with creating a clear and coherent narrative, adapting the text to a non-technical city decision-maker audience and non-native English speakers.
