2019 Conference Highlights.

The 4th International Community Wind Symposium and Community Power Forum 2019 is being organized by WWEA and LEE NRW, in cooperation with Bündnis Bürgerenergie, EnergieAgentur.NRW and Genossenschaftsverband and supported by the African Platform for Community Power and Rural Electrification, the IRENA Coalition for Action, the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies ISEP Japan as well as the Global100RE platform.

40 national and international experts from the field of renewable energy and community power will speak at the event about the importance of community energy. This year's focus is on the issue of appropriate policy frameworks on how new alliances can help citizens to fulfill their key role in the global energy transition. In total, more than 100 international experts are expected to attend the event.

The annual meeting of the subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is again expected to bring some 3,000 delegates to Bonn in 2019. The conference serves to prepare the 25th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention in Chile (COP25). Mayor Ashok Sridharan, also in his role as President of the international network of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, is expected to speak at various agenda items of the conference. In cooperation with ICLEI, there will also be a thematic forum addressing the effects of climate change in cities as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The world’s largest knowledge-led platform on sustainable land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. The GLF has connected 4,000 organizations and 180,000 participants at its gatherings in Warsaw, Lima, London, Paris, Marrakech, Jakarta, Bonn, Washington D.C. and Nairobi, reaching reached over 500 million from 185 countries.

The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is a movement that puts communities first in addressing landscape-level issues. With science and traditional knowledge at the core, GLF outreach, events and projects are designed not only to spark dialogue, but also follow-through to impact in addressing some of the most complex and multi-stakeholder problems facing our earth and our communities.

GLF Bonn 2019 will be organized under the headline: Putting rights at the heart of sustainable landscapes. Linking people and places, the conference will explore how rights-based strategies can help create a more just, sustainable and prosperous future for all.

For the tenth time already, the international city network ICLEI is organizing its „Resilient Cities“ conference in Bonn. Once again, several hundred experts from local authorities, science, business and civil society are expected in Bonn. The focus of the leading international conference on urban resilience and climate adaptation will be on topics such as early warning and disaster management, digitalization, nature-based solutions, circular economy, data-based services, social innovation and inclusion.

The conference is co-patronized by Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of the United Nations Settlements Programme, Mami Mizutori, Head of the UN Programme for Early Warning of Disasters, and Mayor Ashok Sridharan.

At the invitation of the Mayor of Bonn and President of ICLEI, a meeting of the ICLEI Global Executive Committee will also take place for the first time during the Resilient Cities Conference 2019 in Bonn. It is also planned to invite the members of the Global Task Force of Cities and Regions to Bonn.

The Summer Academy of the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), which will take place in Bonn for the fourth time in 2019, is also an integral part of the international conference calendar in Bonn. The five-day programme is aimed not only at employees of the United Nations, but also at representatives from science and industry.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2019 and the 20th anniversary of its establishment in Bonn. On this occasion, the IPC General Assembly and Board Meeting will take place in Bonn from 24 to 27 October 2019. Around 400 participants from all over the world are expected to attend, including high-ranking representatives of the IPC member associations and the associated international federations. The General Assembly of the IPC takes place every two years and has the function of a general meeting.

For the third time, the Global Landscapes Forum will take place in Bonn at the end of the year. Last year more than a thousand representatives of governments, national and international non-governmental organizations, indigenous groups, as well as representatives from the economic, financial, youth, social and media sectors took part in the world's largest forum for integrated land use. Around 12,000 interested parties followed the conference live.

The dates for the Bonn Symposium of the Development and Peace Foundation (SEF) as well as for the UN simulation conference BIMUN/SINUB, both of which will again be held in Bonn in 2019, have also not yet been specified.