Streets can kill cities: C40’s Mark Watts on the Fossil Fuel-Free Streets Declaration
‘Liveable Streets’ is a seminal 1981 work by the urban designer and theorist Donald Appleyard that compared the experiences of…
Building the Future
The C40 Building Energy 2020 (BE2020) Programme will help more than 50 global cities take action to address a significant…
C40’s Executive Director Mark Watts: Climate change doesn’t care about our plans – that’s why cities need to plan for climate change
Recent events from the immense damage that hurricanes Maria, Harvey and Irma have wreaked on Puerto Rico, Houston, Miami and…
C40’s Executive Director Mark Watts: What does the post-combustion engine era mean for our cities?
Air pollution, much of it the by-product of emissions from vehicles, causes more than 4.2m premature deaths each year. The…
Supporting statement of Mark Watts on Gov. Jerry Brown’s announcement of the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit
On behalf of the 91 world cities of the C40 network that have committed to bold action on climate change,…
Mayors lead the global response to Trump’s pull out of the Paris Agreement
The decision by US President Trump to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement could have been disastrous, but the overwhelming…