1 European Union-Japan International Urban Cooperation Programme City-to-City Cooperation Ronald Hall & Ramon Lopez Sanchez Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy European Commission 23 April 2018 Tokyo, 19 April 2016 1 1

Since 2011, DG REGIO and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) support a network under the name of URBELAC (Urban European and Latin American and Caribbean cities). It aims to promote sustainable development in cities and to help to meet the challenges of promoting social development, higher urban productivity and greater environmental protection through the creation of networks, the exchange of experiences, benchmarking and the preparation of action plans in Latin American cities. In three successive editions, URBELAC has allowed 14 EU cities and 18 Latin-American cities to exchange experience and good practices (by means of round tables, working groups, field visits and continuous exchange) covering a wide range of topics such as management models for specific urban areas, the complex and compact city as a sustainable model within an integrated view of the city, or, management of tourism with implications for the city development model.

CITY-to-CiTy cooperation

Framework (1): the Sustainable development goals The SDGs aim to provide an international framework to enable countries to better target and monitor progress across all three dimensions of sustainable urban development (social, environmental and economic) in a coordinated and holistic way. The goals are applicable to all countries, regardless of their level of development.

FRAMEWORK (2): the URBAN AGENDA oF THE EU The EU's vision of the future global "New Urban Agenda" is based on the understanding that an integrated and place-based approach to urban development, together with a long-term vision, is necessary in order to promote cities to be: well-managed socially-inclusive safe resilient resource-efficient environmentally-sustainable economically-prosperous

The New Urban Agenda of the UN: themes Housing and basic service Mobility and public transport Integrated and participatory city management Air quality and waste management Public spaces Urban-rural linkages Integrated planning including inclusion, resource efficiency, climate change, disaster resilience Support for developing countries in sustainable and resilient construction

IUC programme: Global pairings 70+ cities involved so far worldwide, coming from 20 different countries

IUC EU-Japan: city-to-city cooperation themes Ancona-Ikoma: Clean energy, social inclusion and healthy cities Yokohama-Frankfurt: Smart City Essen-Koriyama: Clean technology and renewable energy Hirosaki-Donestia San Sebastian: Buildings and site generation Ioannina-Ichinomiya: Sustainable mobility and transport

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