The AIVP participated in Green Marine’s GreenTech 2025, which took place from June 9-11 in New Orleans (USA). The event allowed the AIVP to connect with many interesting stakeholders from across North America, including members such as the Port of Quebec, the Port of San Diego, and ECOncrete. It also provided insights into ongoing projects in various ports on subjects such as resiliency and climate change adaptation, decarbonization, and stakeholder engagement. These subjects are also close to some of the ones identified in the AIVP Agenda 2030.
AIVP team members, Anas Laani – Network coordination and development – and Caya Hein – Project Leader: Green transition & Agenda 2030 by AIVP, hosted a stand in the exhibition space over the course of the conference, highlighting AIVP services and events such as the upcoming AIVP World Conference Cities and Ports, which will take place from the 18th-21st of November in New York City (AIVP World Conference 2025). They had the opportunity to valorize the Port Center tool on the Innovation Stage on June 10th, emphasizing its importance for the amelioration of the port-city-citizen relations. The subject garnered the attention of the port community, highlighting the unique approach to the port-city relationship that only the AIVP provides.
Caya Hein also spoke during the session “A look at sustainable shipping around the globe”, which took place on June 11th. Caya highlighted the relevance of port resiliency to sustain sustainable shipping. She spoke about different international projects that are focused on the subject, including the Ocean Rise and Coastal Resilience coalition (Ocean Rise & Coastal Resilience Summit – Coalition for cities and regions) and the EU Horizon-funded SAFARI project (SAFARI). Both show different methods in which the AIVP is trying to assist its member in their resiliency and climate change adaptation approaches. In the first, which was presented during the UNOC 3, the AIVP will organize a working group of ports and cities to exchange knowledge and best practices. In the second, the AIVP as a consortium member accompanies its member ports and helps identify how the ports’ extreme weather plans can be aligned with their cities’. Caya also highlighted the fact that climate change adaptation needs to consider the local challenges.
