Guidelines and Actions for COP30, Belém, from an Urban and Regional Perspective
Editors: Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp
On October 28th and 29th, the conference “The Wealth of Nations and the Wellbeing of Places” was held at the Auditorium of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences in Belém, Brazil. The event sought to discuss sustainable development in the Amazon region, focusing on global well-being and the well-being of nations in anticipation of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in the Amazon-Belém-Pará region of Brazil.
The opening panel discussion was attended by Prof. Dr. Marcelo Nazareno Vallinoto de Souza representing the Magnificent Chancellor of UFPA Prof. Dr. Gilmar Pereira de Souza, Prof. Dr. Fernando de Assis Rodrigues as Interim Director of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Prof. Dr. Márcia Jucá Teixeira Diniz (PPGE/UFPA) and Prof. Peter Nijkamp (WSKZ).
For the discussions, mediated by Professor Karima Kourtit, speakers from different countries were invited, such as Professor Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. In addition to him, Prof. Peter Nijkamp (WSKZ), Prof. Dr. Carlos Roberto Azzoni (FEA-USP), Prof. Dr. Marcelo Bentes Diniz (PPGE/UFPA), Prof. Dr. Cláudio Castelo Branco Puty (PPGE/UFPA), Prof. Dr. Cláudio Castelo Branco Puty (PPGE/UFPA), Prof. Carlos Moreno (IAE Paris-Sorbonne), Prof. Luigi Fusco Girard and Francesca Nocca (University of Naples Federico II), Prof. Catherine Gall (Sorbonne/Paris) and architect Giuseppe Cappochin (CNAPPC, Italy).
We also had the participation of researchers Jaewon Lim (University of Nevada), Matteo Colleoni (CNAPPC Scientific Committee), Martijn Burger (Erasmus University), Peter Dzupka and Oto Hudec (Košice Technical University), Sasa Drezgic and Petra Zaninovic (University of Rijeka), Thomas Doxiadis and Yannis Psycharis (Panteion University), Karlem Khachatryan and Ani Khalatyan (Yerevan State University), Mohamed Makhtari (University of Fez), Aleksandra Siewert, Mehmet Ömürlü and Waldemar Ratajcza (WSKZ) and Xufeng Zhu (SPPM-Tsinghua).
At the end of the event, we invited state Congresswoman Lívia Duarte (PSOL) to read the Regional Science Academy Manifesto and deliver it to the authorities in charge of COP30.
