I gave a keynote address, The New Imperative: Green Cities for an Urban World, at the French Embassy in
Washington DC on 6 March 2015. The event was a forum that brought together
mayors from the US and France in a two day event to kick-start long-term and formal cooperation among officials
and practitioners concerned with sustainable urban development in France and
the United States. I learned a lot from a great range of very interesting speakers from central and city governments, private companies and NGOs in France, USA and from around the world. The forum is a lead up to the participation of cities in the December 2015 Paris Climate Conference.