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£750,000 tender to create world’s most sophisticated air monitoring system across London’s streets

London will soon benefit from the world’s most sophisticated air-quality-monitoring system, potentially capable of analysing harmful pollution in up to 1,000 toxic hot spots across the city including schools, hospitals, construction sites and busy roads.

Durban Flood Prevention Boosted with Support of C40 Cities Finance Facility

The C40 Cities Finance Facility have offered to help Durban develop a business case to self-fund community-based management of thousands of kilometres of its watercourses. The initiative will provide multiple-co-benefits like solid waste and alien invasive plant reduction, improvement of its biodiversity and reduction of poverty. It’s about improving the lives of Durban communities.

Tel Aviv Affirms Global Leadership in Taking Climate Action by Joining C40 Cities

C40 & Danish Government Launches Project to Unlock Climate Action in Cities Around the World

Through a 2 million Euro grant from Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) will help five of the world’s fastest growing mega cities, in Africa and Asia to develop and implement ambitious climate action plans. The climate action plans will support the cities to meet emissions reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement and help accelerate sustainable ‘green’ economic growth in these cities.

Cities to be Leading Voices at G20 Summit in Buenos Aires 

U20 was launched today at a press conference hosted by the Mayor of Paris & Chair of C40 Cities, Anne Hidalgo and Mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. The initiative will bring together 30 major cities located in G20 countries, and many other global cities, to raise the profile of urban issues in the G20 agenda and enhance the role of cities in the G20 process.

ICLEI, Global Covenant of Mayors, and C40 announce One Planet Charter to Accelerate Local Implementation of the Paris Agreement

Today, at the One Planet Summit in Paris, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy announced the One Planet Charter to accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement in cities and local governments across the world.

Climate Action Adds 3 Weeks to Average Life Expectancy of Every Citizen of Paris and Could Prevent 45,000 Premature Deaths Globally Each Year

New research by C40 Cities revealed today the scale of the potential health benefits that could be achieved by cities and regions implementing climate action and policies to clean the air that citizens breathe. Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, and Chair of C40 and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Former Governor of California and founder of R20 - Regions of Climate Action, presented the findings on the eve of the One Planet Summit to be held in Paris on December 12th.

C40 CITIES BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES AWARDS CELEBRATE 10 BEST CITIES FOR CLIMATE ACTION IN 2017

Ten cities were honored today at the C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards ceremony, which recognizes the world’s most inspiring and innovative cities taking major climate action. The fifth-annual awards ceremony took place at the North American Climate Summit in Chicago.

Mayors of London and Bengaluru Launch Effort to Tackle Toxic Air Pollution in Cities Worldwide

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and the Mayor of Bengaluru, Sampath Raj, today announced that London and Bengaluru will lead a global partnership of up to 20 other world cities on tackling air pollution in urban centres. The C40 Air Quality Network, will allow city leaders to share ideas, nurture innovation and drive ambition in the global effort to improve the quality of the air in cities worldwide.

Reinventing Cities: C40 Launches Competition for Global Cities to Pave the Way to a Sustainable Future

15 of the world’s great cities launched an unprecedented global competition to drive carbon neutral and resilient urban regeneration. C40’s Reinventing Cities initiative has already identified 46 underutilized spaces to redevelop, including several empty plots and abandoned buildings, a former airport, historical mansions, underused car parks, and an abandoned incinerator and landfill.