Tag: Research Spotlight

At the recent World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan, C40 presented the City Climate Hazard Taxonomy to initiate the public comment period.  The conference brought together over 6,000 delegates from around the world to agree a post-2015 international framework for disaster risk reduction, and share their experiences and challenges of building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.

Humans solve problems by identifying the common patterns that can unlock similarities, explain differences, and relate diverse facts into a coherent whole. As the number of sources of information grows, systems become more complex, and social interactions take hold, decision making becomes hard; more an art than a science, prone to bias, and difficult for humans to ensure they are choosing an optimal path.

In this latest installment of the C40 Research Spotlight series, we hear from our very own Michael Doust, Head of Measurement & Planning, on recent efforts by C40 and key research partners to help cities build credible and consistent GHG inventories – Seth Schultz, C40 Director of Research, Measurement and Planning.

In this next installment of the C40 Research Spotlight series, we present findings from this year's CDP Cities reporting cycle. A record 61 C40 cities reported to CDP in 2014. The results show that C40 cities are leading the way in measuring and reporting emissions, risks, and taking mitigation and adaptation actions. Cities have been doing this consistently for the past four years, and the quality and breadth of city-reported data is only getting better. – Seth Schultz, C40 Director of Research, Measurement & Planning

In this latest edition of our ongoing Research Spotlight series, we hear from Eric Ast, C40 Research Analyst on an important new research project to understand and advance the efforts of global cities leading the way in setting the most ambitious emissions reduction targets – Seth Schultz, C40 Director of Research, Measurement and Planning.