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Climate Opportunity: More Jobs; Better Health; Liveable Cities
New Research Shows Urban Climate Policies Can Create Nearly 14 Million Jobs in Cities & Prevent 1.3 Million Premature Deaths Annually by 2030 New research quantifies the vast economic and...
September 9, 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 Future We Don’t Want
Billions of people in thousands of cities around the world will be at risk from climate-related heatwaves, drought, flooding, food shortages, blackouts and social inequality by mid-century without bold and...
June 19, 2018
The Future We Don’t Want
The Future We Don’t Want project is a collaboration between C40 Cities, Global Covenant of Mayors, Acclimatise, and the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) aimed at understanding and communicating...
June 19, 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
International Ministers And Mayors Discuss “Innovate4cities – A Global Climate Action Accelerator” In Malmö
Innovate4cities – a Global Climate Action Accelerator - will accelerate climate innovation and reinforce the importance of cities’ needs in national research agendas.
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
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