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A new use for Google Maps: calculating a city’s carbon footprint
The Environmental Insights Explorer calculates emissions from buildings, car trips, and public transport to illustrate how a city’s sustainability efforts are faring. BY ADELE PETERS Looking at a city’s Google Maps...
September 10, 2018
Mayor Mohamed Sefiani on Intermediary Cities: Crucial for Climate Action
Intermediary cities play a unique and crucial role in the fight against climate change. These cities account for 30 percent of the world’s urban population, a figure estimated to rise...
August 21, 2018
‘The future we don’t want is already happening’ – climate change expert
By Melanie Gosling, Correspondent The future we don’t want is already happening with more intense droughts, floods, heat waves, blackouts, food shortages and sea levels gradually rising. It may sound...
June 20, 2018
The Edmonton Declaration, a local climate agreement for cities, gets U.S. agreement
By Hamdi Issawi EDMONTON—As tensions mount between Canada and the U.S. on the trade front, municipal leaders have pledged to work more closely together to fight a common enemy: climate change....
June 11, 2018
Mayor Jaiman Upadhyay, Rajkot, India, on Integrated Planning and Scientific Data
The next few years will be critical to determine how effectively we will rise to the challenge of protecting our cities, and therefore our planet. But this work can’t be...
June 1, 2018
Clean energy innovation: How Europe can make a real difference
By Maroš Šefčovič Public-private partnerships are vital to achieving the leap forward, deploying new clean technologies at scale and fast, writes Maroš Šefčovič. Maroš Šefčovič is the European Commission Vice President in...
May 23, 2018
Sign the Edmonton Declaration
Sign the Edmonton Declaration - a bold call-to-action for cities of all sizes to seriously consider the role of scientific research and data in building ambitious climate action plans. The...
May 23, 2018
The Future Of Sustainability And Climate Change
Investors, insurers and banks are already taking concrete steps to reduce their exposure to the opportunities of the past and investing in the opportunities of the future By Christiana Figueres...
May 11, 2018
Tackling climate change: Global Covenant of Mayors launches it South Asia chapter
To tackle the effects of climate change, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) today launched a chapter for South Asian countries and urged mayors and commissioners from India as well as local...
May 5, 2018
Interview with Mayor Rodas, Quito, Ecuador, on Urban Finance
Cities such as Quito have already proven to be central to the fight against climate change, as local governments across the world are increasingly mandating the construction of zero-emission and...
April 27, 2018
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