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Global Covenant of Mayors agree emissions cuts equal to removing all US cars off the road
Connecting small and mid-size cities with vital GHG emissions data is the first step in enabling them to take the science-based climate action needed to increase urban resilience and improve...
September 12, 2018
Raising Ambition: GCoM Releases Impact, Data Reporting Standard, and New Tool at Global Climate Action Summit
The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy announced that the collective impact of current commitments made by cities and local governments around the world have already exceeded 1/3...
September 10, 2018
Implementing Climate Ambition- Global Covenant of Mayors 2018 Global Aggregation Report
As countries consider how to increase their ambition in the lead-up to implementing their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Climate Agreement in 2020.
September 10, 2018
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
Climate Opportunity Report: More Jobs, Better Health, Liveable Cities
The Climate Opportunity report outlines the benefits for three highly effective climate actions and provides local and national policymakers with a guiding methodology for how cities and nations can evaluate...
September 9, 2018
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
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