<p>Featuring:</p><ul><li>Prof Anna Davies Trinity, Centre for Smart and Sustainable Cities</li><li>Prof Edgar Pieterse, African Centre for Cities</li><li>Ms Alice Charles, World Economic Forum Geneva</li><li>Mr John Mauro, City of Port Townsend, Washington</li><li>Prof Marie-Christine Therrien, Cité-ID Liv­ing Lab</li></ul><p><strong><em>Cities are increasingly the key implementer of international, national, and local policy. They are where policy and theory intersect directly with people’s lives. This panel will explore the challenges encountered, and the practical solutions deployed, at the ‘pointy end’ of the Sustainable Development Goals, for example to fight against climate change. </em></strong></p><p>Is science advice sufficiently vertically integrated to truly “think globally and act locally”?</p>