The Chamber is organizing the fourth Conference under UTC (virtually), on the theme “Making Chennai a Climate Smart City”. The Conference would spread across for 2 days on 9th and 10th November 2020 coinciding with the 9th Anniversary of Sustainable Chennai Forum, with expert International speakers apart from experts from Government, Industries, and Consultants. 

As you may be aware, the Chamber launched the Sustainable Chennai Forum (SCF) on November 9, 2011, during our 175th year and through this forum we focus on areas like Energy, Water, Waste Management, Transport and Urban Greening and have conducted Conferences, Seminars and awareness programs on a regular basis. 

In the last three years, the Chamber has been privileged to host the Urban Thinkers Campus, the first of its kind in Chennai, under the World Urban Campaign,  namely “Chennai as a Global City” in 2017, followed by “Roadmap to Zero waste in Chennai”  in the year 2018 and “Making Chennai Water Positive” in the year 2019.Further, during the current pandemic, the Chamber took part in the #COVID-19 Urban Thinkers Campus Series 2 and had a Session on “Housing for All to Create Sustainable and Inclusive Cities”.  

In this year's virtual conference, the inaugural plenary session will be followed by the technical sessions for each theme across 9^th and 10^th of November 2020. High profile speakers and panelists representing many national and international organizations will be addressing this Conference. 

 The Main themes for this conference would cover the following: - 

1) Climate Change – Indian Urban Outlook
2) Disasters and Risk Resilience – Lessons learnt from recent Disasters
3) Building Green infrastructure
4) Policy and Governance

                                                                            
Virtual Cisco Platform registration link is shared below. We request you to please register and be a part of this major Conference.