Dr. Chatterjee's lecture at the World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center's TDD on Low Carbon Cities flagship program
March 21, 2022
Dr. Souran Chatterjee was invited to deliver a keynote framing lecture by the World Bank, in their World Bank Technical Deep Dive (TDD) on Low Carbon Cities programme. His lecture was focused on how cities can tackle climate change, pandemic and economic crisis.
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"While cities today face pandemic, climate and economic challenges, city leaders can promote neighbourhood based #resilience and achieve net zero emission through #digitalization, zero-energy retrofit, and zero-energy neighbourhood."
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This TDD is TDLC’s flagship, cohort-based knowledge acceleration program, which brings together groups of World Bank clients and city leaders who are primarily responsible for the implementation of bank projects in their countries. In his lecture there were participants from all over the world who are city leaders including from city government and professions working on sustainable/smart city developments.
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World bank has also tweeted and shared the key messages from the presentation on their platforms.
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*TDLC (Tokyo Development Learning Center) is a program of the World Bank launched in 2004 in partnership with the Government of Japan. TDLC serves as a global knowledge hub that operationalizes Japanese and global urban development knowledge, insights, and technical expertise to maximize the impact of World Bank-financed urban development projects in developing countries.