Cities on the Frontlines: Advancing Urban Resilience for Climate Adaptation
Lauren Sorkin, Executive Director at the Resilient Cities Networks, catches up with the City of Rotterdam’s Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb on citizen engagement, climate change and much more.
Agustin Botteron, author of a new Visa on government disbursements and former Chief Resilience Officer of Santa Fe, and Robert L. Matthews, Director of the Washington D.C. Child and Family Services Agency, are the latest guests on the Urban Exchange podcast.
Gareth Morgan, executive director of future planning and resilience for the City of Cape Town, joins the Urban Exchange to talk about his efforts to put resilience front and centre of all aspects of the city’s work.
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Emma Howard Boyd CBE, the chair of the London Climate Resilience Review and Race to Resilience Global Ambassador, shares her insights on the urgent need to prepare London and other cities for extreme weather.
We assess the current trends in air quality monitoring and improvement, identifying projects, policies and technologies that are aiding cities in creating more liveable and breathable urban environments.
We explore how cities can overcome these barriers and embark on a successful AI journey, discovering the processes involved in applying AI to city data and creating valuable actionable insights across sustainability, operational efficiency, safety and beyond.
Join us on the latest episode of the Urban Exchange podcast, looking back at 10 years of resilience in the city of Rotterdam, and exploring what the future holds.
Join us on the latest episode of the Urban Exchange podcast, looking back at 10 years of resilience in the city of Rotterdam, and exploring what the future holds.
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Juliana Augusto Cardoso, Deputy Secretary, Economic Development, State of Sao Paulo, provides a detailed look at how the state’s economy is poised for dramatic growth, and the role cities can play in driving it further.
SmartCitiesWorld talks to C40 Cities’ head of climate budgeting and the Greater London Authority’s interim CFO about the potential of climate budgeting, and how its future success lies in linking long-term action with a city’s immediate needs.
Sarah Hannah-Spurlock, night-time economy manager, City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, believes cities have to break out of the nine to five mindset if they are to build night-tme economies that work for citizens and visitors.
The city’s drive to net zero is supported by a robust accountability framework, explains James Nowlan, the city’s executive director of environment and climate.
Kyra Appleby, global director for cities, states and regions for CDP, explains how the latest revisions to the CDP-ICLEI Track questionnaire can aid cities in disclosing urban climate action progress information that can be applied to other reporting frameworks, and how cities can begin their journey to climate action through initial disclosure – regardless of existing progress.
Steve Turner, director of the UK Cities Climate Investment Commission (CCIC), explains how the commission is seeking to close the funding gap in the UK to enable crucial green projects to go ahead, and considers the ways the commission’s model could be scaled internationally.
Cities on the Frontlines: Advancing Urban Resilience for Climate Adaptation
Lauren Sorkin, Executive Director at the Resilient Cities Networks, catches up with the City of Rotterdam’s Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb on citizen engagement, climate change and much more.
With technology set to play a key part in the global recovery from the pandemic, we explore evolving funding methods that are helping cash-strapped cities get smart.
An official London Climate Action Week event, SmartCitiesWorld’s Summit brought together more than 60 city speakers and 2,586 delegates from around the world.
Follow all the action from the first day of SmartCitiesWorld’s Cities Climate Action Summit online today from 9.25am BST. There’s still time to register for the event and take part in the discussion
Netmore’s LoRaWan IoT connectivity will be added to 27,000 apartments across Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg to improve energy efficiency and operations.
There’s still time to be a part of SmartCitiesWorld’s Cities Climate Action Summit 2024, which promises to be one of the most action-oriented climate events for cities this year.
Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.
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