The first AIPH Green City Briefing of 2025 will showcase the development of climate resilient cities via urban greening initiatives. Registrations are open for this free online webinar, which takes place at 1pm BST on 10th April 2025. Visit the AIPH Website to sign up. 

Organised by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) in collaboration with the Worshipful Company of Gardeners (WCoG), the AIPH Green City Briefings are a series of one-hour webinars focusing on cities around the world that demonstrate significant progress in including plants and nature in their city’s form and function. The third series of Briefings, running from 2024-2025, features the winners of the AIPH World Green City Awards 2024.

Kobie Brand, Deputy Secretary General of ICLEI, Regional Director of ICLEI Africa, and Global Director of ICLEI’s Cities Biodiversity Centre leads as MC for the April Briefing, titled ‘Creating climate resilient cities’. With over two decades of experience in the field of urban sustainability, Kobie has a passion for greener, safer and more inclusive cities for a current and future urban population.

Speakers include Dr. Robert McDonald, Lead Scientist for Nature-Based Solutions and Lead Scientist for Europe at The Nature Conservancy. This global non-profit aims to conserve natural environments by addressing the biodiversity and climate crises. At The Nature Conservancy, Robert researches the impact and dependencies of communities on the natural world, and studies how nature can increase resilience in the face of climate change and improve human health and well-being.

The Briefing’s second speaker is Hon. Saleh Maalim Alio, Sub National Minister for Lands, Housing, Urban Development, and Municipality Affairs for the County Government of Mandera, Kenya. In 2024, Mandera Municipality won the ‘Living Green for Climate Change’ category of the AIPH World Green City Awards for its Greening Programme. This urban greening initiative transformed the semi-arid landscape by planting more than 200,000 trees, thereby increasing Mandera’s resilience to extreme weather conditions. 

AIPH is proud to showcase the success of Mandera Municipality’s Afforestation Program which has sparked a ripple effect extending beyond its initial scope to catalyse transformative changes in how a city and its partners can work with plants and nature. Read the full case study.

For more information and to register, visit the Event Page.