In this final episode of City Climate Innovation, special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast produced by GCoM, Melbourne Centre for Cities and Melbourne Climate Futures, we bring a “fire side chat” with the co-chairs of the Innovate4Cities 2024 Conference – Ben Jance, Head of Research and Innovation at GCoM; Lea Ranalder Associate Programme Management Officer at UN Habitat; and two other key members of the event organizing team and lead authors of the Outcomes Report.

We have the mastermind of the new city building form of the updated Global Research and Action Agenda for Cities and Climate Change Science (or GRAA) – Andrew Irvin; and curator of the Plenary Sessions, Hackathon and Climate Innovation Readiness Navigator Samia Khan. These guests join host Cathy Oke, Associate Professor Cathy Oke Senior Advisor to the Innovate4Cities Initiative and Director of Melbourne Centre for Cities. In this final episode of this third series of special episodes of the ClimateTalks Podcast series produced in partnership with GCoM, we conclude the discussions on themes of the 2024 Innovate4Cities Conference with key outcomes from this event, including the third iteration of the GRAA.

The clip at the beginning of the episode is Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer, former Grand Chief of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke opening the 2024 Innovate4Cities Conference.