100 days since the Paris Climate Agreement: 5 Reasons Why Cities Hold the Key to Delivering Success
The aspiration of the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees may one day be recognized as…
C40’s Executive Director Mark Watts: Mayors from around the world won’t breathe easily until urban air pollution is tackled
A coalition of 20 mayors from major European cities have this week called on governments from across the continent to use all…
City of Rio to Host First C40 Event to Unlock Access to City Financing
Today, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and the City of Rio de Janeiro announced a first-of-its-kind global financing forum…
Mayors Voices: Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille on a more ambitious climate change agenda
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing our planet. At the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris in December,…
Mark Watts: “When cities compete with each other, it’s a race to the top”
How our cities are run and designed can have a huge impact on the carbon footprint we have as individuals,…
Expert Voices: Abha Joshi-Ghani, Director; Leadership, Learning and Innovation at The World Bank
All climate action is ultimately local. Thus cities must take the lead in lowering greenhouse gas emissions, creating green cities,…