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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Robert Muggah, Principal, SecDev Group The world in 2020 is looking more turb…
This episode is all about cities. We’ll hear from Amanda Eichel, executive director of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, on how cities are taking the lead, innovating and collaborating in order to tackle pressing climate challenges.
The movement is supported by Brest, Baranovichi, Pinsk, Kobrin, Pruzhany, Bereza, Ivatsevichi and also Pinsk District.
After Trump announced he would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement, more than 1,000 U.S. governors, mayors, businesses and universities pledged to make greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Now, a study by Data-Driven Yale has found that local commitments are important, but not enough to compensate for lack of action at the national level.
Global warming threatens global electricity production, according to a report released by four organisations on 19 June. As many as 270 power plants could face an increased risk of flooding by 2050. EURACTIV’s partner Le Journal de l’environnement reports.
The global population is predicted to rise to 10bn by 2050, and the majority of those people will live in cities. Given that cities already account for 75 per cent of the world’s energy use and 76 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, there’s a growing focus on how urban planning and design can reduce emissions and help humanity to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
New political, diplomatic and financial measures have been outlined by European Commission officials during a summit celebrating the EU Covenant of Mayors.
The woman who led the world to its first deal on climate change now has a new mission: Stopping emissions from rising by 2020. Ahead of the upcoming MIEC
What part Dunedin will play in tackling climate change has become a little clearer. At a meeting of the Dunedin City Council's plannin
Evanston Mayor Steve Hagerty signed the Chicago Climate Charter earlier this month, joining mayors and other leaders from around North America in committing to the international pact, according to a City of Evanston press release.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has partnered with city mayors from all over the world to mobilise more than $1.5 billion in urban investment to help combat climate change.
What the United Kingdom's relationship with the European Union will look like after March 2019 remains murky. We know that, after Brexit, British policymakers will no longer sit at the same table with their counterparts to debate the grand principles and fine print of policies that affect the world's largest market.
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Twelve European cities have agreed to cut their carbon emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030 in a fresh bid to halt rising temperatures.
The risks posed by climate change to the world's cities require adaption and planning, but questions remain over how prepared urban areas around the world really are.
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The Global Covenant of Mayors’ Co-Chairs, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Climate Action Michael Bloomberg, and European CommissionVice-President Maroš Šefčovič on March 22 announced plans to develop a City Research & Innovation Agenda to address critical knowledge, data and innovation gaps that will enable cities to take accelerated and more ambitious climate action. According to
Cities are vital to the transition to a low-carbon economy. President Trump's commitment to pull out of the Paris Agreement signaled what appeared to be the worst of times for a transition to a low-carbon future in the United States. But actions being taken by a significant number of cities could instead make it the best of times for renewable energy in America.Cities both in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly setting low-carbon goals and implementing local policies that recognize sustainability investment as essential to new markets, jobs and creating attractive places to live, work and do business.
More than 100 cities worldwide get at least 70 percent of their electricity from renewable sources. How did they manage and what can we learn from them?
More than 100 cities around the world now get at least 70 percent of their electricity from renewable sources such solar, wind, geothermal and hydropower, according to new research from the non-profit CDP. That's more than double the 40 cities reporting they were powered by at least 70 percent clean energy in 2015.
The World Bank has collaborated with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy to provide technical assistance and $4.5 billion in funding to help
Cities, as hubs of innovation, now stand at the forefront of climate action
It's not all bad news at Bonn – with low carbon precincts, living infrastructure and urban networks, cities are leading the charge against climate change.
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