Sandra Baer takes us through the eight things city leaders should be looking for during Cop28 in Dubai, to help build inclusive and lasting climate resilience.
Bloomberg, WRI and the Cop28 Presidency co-hosted a Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (Champ) High-Level Political Dialogue at Climate Week NYC.
C40 Cities’ Caterina Sarfatti and Emilie Maehara provide their reflections from Cop28, discuss how cities are now core to climate action progress and stress the need for climate financing to come into sharper focus.
Alliance for CEO Climate Leaders, a community facilitated by the World Economic Forum, is putting forward 10 measures to close the emissions reduction gap.
The UAE Earth platform aims to help advance progress and support decision-making in five domains: economy, adaptation, reduction, transition and health.
The public-private-partnership project harnesses digital twin technology, AI, ML and satellite imagery, combined with blockchain-enabled water accounting.
Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Energy will work together on domestic efforts to reduce carbon emissions in the building sector.
The role of cities has been brought into the spotlight at the UN Cop28 climate event this week, with the first-ever formal Local Climate Action Summit.
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles unveiled the partnership strategy for the corridor across the Pacific.
Initiatives announced on the Cop28 Multilevel Action, Urbanisation, Built Environment and Transport Day included tools to measure methane emissions and benefits of 15-minute cities.
The Presidency said national governments must fully integrate climate action among all levels of government and collaborate with subnational governments.
It will support governments and private sector with capacity, climate finance and policy to stimulate the flow of funding into projects that curb emissions.
Modelling by EY showcased at Cop28 reveals there is not one energy transition, but multiple ones unfolding at different paces and in different ways globally.
Net-Zero Data Public Utility will be the world’s first global, standardised source of private sector climate transition-related data, freely accessible to all.
To reduce emissions while achieving its development goals, Asia needs to accelerate and scale up innovative financing solutions for its energy transition.
The high costs of projects, coupled with constraints on municipal budgets, mean a rapid acceleration of support is needed to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
More than 40 announcements included launch of the Coalition for High Ambition Multi-Level Partnerships and a new cohort of the Breathe Cities initiative.
Breathe Cities aims to contribute to a reduction of air pollution by 30 per cent by 2030 and prevent almost 40,000 premature deaths in selected cities.
Sandra Baer takes us through the eight things city leaders should be looking for during Cop28 in Dubai, to help build inclusive and lasting climate resilience.
For the first time, Cop28 opens with a Local Climate Action Summit, providing a formal platform for mayors at the heart of the multilateral negotiation space.
Following a collaboration with Nasa, it is applying its technologies to tackle challenges in areas such as heat island effect, reforestation and resilience.
Published ahead of the first health day at the UN Cop28 summit, Healthy & Resilient Cities calls for health to be at the centre of city design and planning.
Designed to connect and empower organisations working toward carbon neutrality, the TanLive platform offers collaborative tools including community networking.
Analysis reveals the number of climate-responsive projects in EMDC funded by private sources of capital has decreased by around 10 per cent per year since 2015.
The Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders has signed an open letter ahead of Cop28 calling on public and private sector leaders to accelerate net zero actions.
Hosted by the Cop28 Presidency and Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Cop28 Local Climate Action Summit will bring together hundreds of subnational climate leaders.
Michael Bloomberg and the Cop28 Presidency convened mayors and city leaders to highlight the critical importance of cities in the fight against climate change.
