Mayor Mel Sarmiento will be in Barcelona, Spain today. He will be participating in the High-Level Symposium on Cities, Climate Change and Finance. He is there upon the invitation of the event organizers namely, the City of Barcelona, the Government of Spain and the World Bank.
This event aims at promoting dialogue around climate-friendly city development paths and facilitating knowledge exchange within and between relevant stakeholder groups - city mayors, senior officials from government and city networks, business leaders, multilateral development organizations, leading thinkers form academia and research - from developing and developed countries.
The symposium, in particular will launch the "City Twinning for Carbon Finance Capacity Development" program, which will be assisted by CF-Assist, World Bank with the support of the Spanish government; and aims at fostering partnerships among cities for networking among peer and knowledge sharing on carbon finance in cities.
The event is also being held in conjunction with Carbon Expo 2009 which will be held in Barcelona, Spain from May 27 - 29, 2009. Said expo will feature the focal theme "Cities and Carbon Finance" in its official Conference and exhibition.
Mayor Sarmiento's expenses for this trip were paid for by the event organizers.
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