Toallow more time for cities to prepare for the application, the deadlines of the third Guangzhou Award have been extended for one month respectively for all the steps of the application and selection process. The latest dates and deadlines are indicated in the following timeline: ¬30 June 2016 : Registration deadline ¬31 August 2016 : Submission deadline ¬October 2016 : Technical Search Exporting Chemicals Co Ltd 86 Mail. Seraya Chemicals Singapore Pte Ltd established on 8 February 1994 as a 70:30 joint venture between Shell and Mitsubishi Chemical 1 Siam Cement Road, Bangsue, Bangkok 10800 Thailand Each member of ATG's board of directors has extensive experience in the trade of oil and agro-chemical related products In-depth article on beamhouse processing Atotal of 313 initiatives have been submitted from 213 cities in 70 countries and regions. After reviewing the applications, members of the technical committee of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation, which met in Surabaya, Indonesia, in parallel to the 7th Congress of United Cities and Local Governments - Asia Pacific (UCLG-ASPAC Congress), announced the 15 short-listed cities. Theyear 2018 begins with the launch of the 4th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (Guangzhou Award), a platform for the sharing and exchange of successful innovative practices. The Guangzhou Award supports the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and New Urban Agenda (NUA), contributing to the creation of inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements. Cohosted by UCLG, Metropolis, and Guangzhou Municipal Government, the Guangzhou Award aims to reward innovations to improve the socio-economic environments in cities and regions, promote sustainability, and hence advance the livelihood of their citizens. Presented biennially, the award will encourage and recognize outstanding innovative projects and practices in the public sector. Mortimerto Guangzhou, China associated with attending the Guangzhou International Urban Innovation Conference and the 2014 Chinese International Friendship City Conference. 2. On 11 November 2014, the Future Melbourne Committee approved the proposal for Councillor Beverley Pinder-Mortimer to travel to Guangzhou for the period 26 to 29 November Thefourth edition of Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation will kick off in the Guangdong capital of Guangzhou on Dec 6. [Photo by WeChat Account GZWS411665430] Presented biennially, the award is open to all cities and local governments with successful initiatives in urban innovation. Theaward was jointly established by the city of Guangzhou, United Cities and Local Government and the Metropolis (World Association of the Major Cities), and fully demonstrates global cities' creativity and responsibility amidst a wave of global urbanization.12 In the first three presentations of the award, over 700 urban innovation cases Anaward ceromony & Gala dinner was held on Dec.7. [Photo/Foreign Affairs Office of Guangzhou Municipal Government] Five innovative urban initiatives won this year's Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (the Guangzhou Award). The winners were chosen from 15 finalists and were announced at an award ceremony and gala dinner Скачатьигры U did ur best para mag top 1 ulit Tayo Email: [email protected] 212-539-6039 201-837-9000 Nicolas Schmitt Dancers-Direct Dancers-Direct. TEXT 325-305-8060 Supplying a rich, diverse roster of models and dancers, of all ages, sizes, heights, ethnicities and above all; unique looks, UNRTHDX is the leading talent discovery Ag3rS. The City of Guangzhou has the honor to inform the urban community that submission is now open for the fourth 2018 Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation Guangzhou Award. We would like to invite you to join us if your city or region is putting in place any initiatives under themes highlighted in Sustainable Development Goals especially SDG 11 and New Urban Agenda. For the New Urban Agenda, special focus is being placed on urban planning and design, financing urban development, access to affordable housing, infrastructure, and services. We want the world to learn from your experience in implementing the global agendas. Please share your wisdom with us and submit your initiatives online at by August 31, 2018. "The Guangzhou Award is not only the way to showcase excellence in cities around the world," commented Mr. Josep Roig, former Secretary General of the United Cities and Local Governments UCLG, "but should also foster exchanges and learning." Initiated in 2012, the Guangzhou Award is sponsored by City of Guangzhou, UCLG and World Association of the Major Metropolises Metropolis, and aims at advancing the prosperity and quality of life of the citizens of those and other cities. The award, presented biennially, has received more than 700 initiatives from 70 plus countries and regions in the past three cycles. It recognizes innovation in improving social, economic, and environmental sustainability in cities and regions, and has provided a platform to share and exchange innovative practices. During the last cycle in 2016, five cities/local governments made their way out of 301 applications to the Guangzhou Award, Songpa-gu South Korea, Qalyubeya Egypt, Boston US, Copenhagen Denmark, and La Paz Bolivia, for their outstanding initiatives. Up to five winning urban innovative initiatives will be determined by an independent Jury and will be awarded at the Guangzhou International Urban Innovation Conference, to be held in Guangzhou in December, 2018. "The most important point of the set-up of the Guangzhou Award is that those awarded cases can inspire other cities and can be applied across various situations," said Mr. Nicholas You, Director of International Programs and Cooperation at Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation. The award is developing an ongoing system of learning for cities around the world and encourages new methods to deal with social, economic, and environmental challenges. For more information about the submission process, please visit By Edith Mutethya in Nairobi, Kenya Updated 2019-05-30 2153Nicholas You, Executive Director of Guangzhou Institute for Urban InnovationThe Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation has become a vital platform for cities across the world to share best practices and learn from each other on localization of new urban agenda or NUA and sustainable development goals or its fourth edition, the competition has intensified over the years as cities embrace innovation to tackle both existing and new challenges. In 2018, a total of 313 initiatives1 were submitted by 213 cities and regions from over 70 technical committee identified a list of 45 commendable initiatives, followed by a shortlist of 15 initiatives and finally five award-winning the context of the Guangzhou award, urban innovation is defined as the deliberate act of introducing new policies, programs, strategies, business models and types of partnerships to tackle existing and new to Nicholas You, the executive director of Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation, cities are entering into a new era, where they are taking on roles that were traditionally not within their mandate, perhaps due to inability of the existing institutions to respond effectively to local cities are mandated to basically collect garbage, keep streets clean, and manage traffic, You said most of them are currently creating jobs and new institutional frameworks to deal with issues outside the local government mandate."This is an important take away. That implementation of the new urban agenda, and SDGs at the local level, is going to compel many cities to think beyond their traditional mandate," he gave the remarks at a side event in the first UN-Habitat Assembly, where four of the five cities that are the finalists for the 2018 Guangzhou award for Urban Innovation, shared their experiences on localizing NUA and Budworth, CEO of Compass Housing based in Australia, shared how Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, became an eco-friendly city where the 3Rs- recycle, reduce and reuse have become normative city promoted the 3R principles to a poorly educated community unfamiliar with the concepts. This was piloted in Kampung, one of the city's informal the 3R concept, the city-owned buses accept plastic bottles as a form of payment. Through this, Surabaya reduced waste by 10 percent per year even as the city population grew by 5 percent Birch, professor of Urban Research and director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, shared how Mezitli, a coastal Turkish city of nearly 250,000 with 60,000 registered Syrian, established a network of public markets for women women grow agricultural products or make homemade goods from in or around the metropolitan the first market having been opened in 2014, the network has grown to nine markets serving 612 women producers. Their wares range from citrus and tomatoes to jams and Vancutsem, secretary general of the International Society of City and Regional Planners, shared the Italy's Milan city food policy compels the municipal agencies to think about the regional food shed, the geographic radius from where Milan feeds its people, and discusses policy approaches that can encourage a more sustainable food policy considers how food gets from producers to market and whether it's possible to reduce emissions in Katz from Habitat for Humanity International shared the Bolivia's administrative capital La Paz traffic zebras, a citizen culture the program, young creative people show zebra crossing, wearing costumes that emulate a zebra. This is aimed at reducing road said the Mezitli case is being replicated in Southern Syria, while the La Paz case is being replicated in Latin the next 10 years, You said they will document the innovative case studies and bring them to the attention of the national governments."We want a situation where a mayor can go online to find a solution to the challenging his city is experiencing," You said the delegates he interacted with at the UN-Habitat Assembly expressed concerns on how to support local implementation of the new urban agenda and SDGs."Cities need to map out the SDGs against what they are already doing and then look at where the opportunities and gaps lie. That is the starting point," he Saiz, secretary general of the United Cities and Local Government or UCLG, said the new agenda is about cooperation between cities and making the link between the roles that cities need to play in the global agenda."Through localization of the SDGs, we are able to connect the thoughts in a different manner. We are able to identify the areas we have been developing policies on but have not given us the results that we thought and we can identify why. That's why we are bringing this agenda to our members to enable them reshape their priorities," she said innovation is not always about new, but rethinking the methodologies and putting new people around the The original text contains a factual error which has herein been corrected by the Guangzhou Award Secretariat. Sustainable development is an essential issue in today's human society. The global spread of COVID-19 highlights the importance and urgency of sustainable development. A total of 273 initiatives from 175 cities and local governments in 60 countries and regions applied for the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation, which fully demonstrated global cities' determination to adhere to exchanges and cooperation under the epidemic. This meeting released the Technical Committee Meeting results of the 5th Guangzhou Award and announced the 15 shortlisted include Mr. Guan Litong, Deputy Director General of Department of European and Asian Affairs, the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries; Mr. Sun Xiuqing, Deputy Secretary General of Guangzhou Municipal Government; Ms. Emilia Saiz, Secretary-General of United Cities and Local Governments; Mr. Octavi de la Varga, Secretary General of Metropolis. Mr. Liu Baochun, Director General of Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office, Metropolis Regional Secretary of Asia-Pacific, hosted the speakers mentioned that the Covid-19 pandemic has challenged our urban planning and governance. Ms. Saiz said that, the Covid-19 that the world is going through has changed the perceptions of many things and has impacted our economy and our society. It has also highlighted some of the changes that we need to make at local government level. Mr. Octavi said, "The Covid-19 pandemic has placed cities and city leaders at the forefront of the fight and in adapting policies, rethinking our urban development, and looking for creative solutions. And I think this is at the heart of the Guangzhou Award." Multiple speakers expressed their recognition on Guangzhou Award’s achievement on urban governance innovation. In Mr. Guan Litong’s speech, he remarked, despite the impact of the pandemic, the 5th Guangzhou Award has progressed against the adversities. It fully demonstrated the international influence of the Guangzhou Award and the determination of global cities to cooperate and to develop under the pandemic. Mr. Sun Xiuqing praised Guangzhou Award for sticking to its mission and promote global urban governance and sustainable development, while combating the global Sylvia Croese, Chair of the Technical Committee of the 5th Guangzhou Award, the Senior Researcher of the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning from University of the Witwatersrand, reported on the initial assessment and announced the list of shortlisted cities. Subsequently, two of the Technical Committee members, Mr. Serge Salat, President of Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute in Paris, and Mr. Ali Cheshmehzangi, Head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies CSET of the University of Nottingham in Ningbo China, commented on the shortlisted 15 shortlisted cities of the 5th Guangzhou Award are City of Unley, Australia; Wien, Austria; São José dos Pinhais, Brazil; Chongqing Municipality, China; Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; Quito, Ecuador; All 114 Urban Local Bodies ULBs of Odisha, India; Berhampur Municipal Corporation BeMC, India; Bandung City Government, Indonesia; Union of Municipalities, Lebanon; Municipality Of Antananarivo Commune Urbaine d'Antananarivo, Madagascar; Breda, Netherlands; Departmental Council of Saint Louis, Senegal; City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Los Angeles, guests accepted interviews from several media and share different concepts and practices of urban innovation and sustainable development. They also give their opinion of the future trends of global urban governance and the renewing assessment of innovation. These ideas provided new insights for the exploration of future urban sustainable find the list of 45 deserving cities as followThe 15 shortlisted cities of the 5th Guangzhou AwardThe 30 deserving initiatives of the 5th Guangzhou AwardReport of the Technical Committee of 5th Guangzhou Award