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One third of C40 Cities network have seen their greenhouse gas emissions fall over a 5 year period achieving at least a 10% reduction on their peak emissions. Data reveals concrete evidence that many cities are on schedule to achieve 2020 milestone crucial to delivering their share of Paris Agreement goals. View
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On August 1, the world will reach Earth Overshoot Day, the day when humanity will have used up nature’s renewable “budget” of resources for 2018. This according to the Global Footprint Network, an international research organization. The carbon footprint, which represents the total amount of greenhouse gases produced to support human
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Smart Cities - Intelligent Digital Transformational Change for a Stronger Climate Action? PETER COVELIERS, Head of Group Corporate Programmes and Institutional Business Development, European Investment Fund LADA STRELNIKOVA, Lead Fund Manager European Energy Efficiency Fund, Director DWS (Deutsche Bank Group) When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the climate theme for Canada’s 2018 G7 Presidency ‘Working together on climate
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Speaking at this year’s Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation in Bonn, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa warned that the impacts of climate change are “an incredible risk” to many cities throughout the world. “They will affect their infrastructure, their economies, and the lives of people living there. But we
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UN Climate Change News, 9 March 2018 – Experts have established a global blueprint to better understand climate change, its impacts on cities, and the critical role local authorities play in solving this challenge. Cities are responsible for some 75% of global CO2 emissions, with transport and buildings being among the largest
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The number of cities reporting they are predominantly powered by clean energy has more than doubled since 2015, as momentum builds for cities around the world to switch from fossil fuels to renewable sources. Data published on Tuesday by the not-for-profit environmental impact researcher CDP found that 101 of the more
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Challenge and Opportunity Unprecedented urbanization is transforming the planet and the way we live. For the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. Some 90 percent of this urban expansion is taking place in developing countries, with another 2.5 billion people expected to move into
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Hundreds of millions of urban dwellers around the world face their cities being inundated by rising seawaters if latest UN warnings that the world is on course for 3C of global warming come true, according to a Guardian data analysis. Famous beaches, commercial districts and swaths of farmland will be threatened
Read MoreQuito, Ecuador, 18 October 2016 – Cities now have an unprecedented opportunity to transform and decarbonise their energy supply and use, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable Energy in Cities, released today on the sidelines of the Habitat III Conference in Quito, estimates
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