Oct 29, 2024 | October 2024, Urban Policies
In cities and urban areas, the risks people and assets face due to climate change and its effects have intensified. As the percentage of the global population living in cities continues to climb, there is an urgent need to rethink how cities are planned and built....
Oct 29, 2024 | October 2024, Urban Policies
By 2050, cities – long celebrated as hubs of resilience and innovation – will be home to more than two-thirds of the world’s population. Precisely because they host a large concentration of people, services, and infrastructure, urban areas have...
Oct 29, 2024 | October 2024, Urban Policies
Cities as GHG emitters Cities occupy around 3% of the land’s surface but are responsible for 70% of all carbon dioxide emissions [3]. The disproportionate contribution of urban areas to GHG emissions can partly be attributed to city planning and layout. Most...
Feb 28, 2023 | Urban Policies
Introduction The Global Covenant of Mayors (for Climate and Energy) (GCoM) is an alliance for city climate leadership; it is the largest in the world consisting of 11,500 cities and local governments from 142 countries across six continents. The Global Covenant of...
Dec 4, 2021 | Urban Policies
Introduction Cities are home to more than half of the world’s population, generate over 80% of global GDP, and are responsible for more than 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions; tendency: increasing [1]. Therefore cities play a key role in global climate...
Apr 17, 2021 | Transport, Urban Policies
It is in response to this that the concept of the 15-minute city was popularised when Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, made it the driver of her re-election campaign. Her renowned scientific advisor and professor at the Sorbonne, Carlos Moreno, explains the 15-minute...
