Cities are responsible for about 75 percent of the world’s total energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, while the vast majority of them are located on or near the coast, making cities especially vulnerable to the dangerous effects of climate change.
By Mark Watts, Executive Director of C40 In September, all eyes were on New York City, which hosted the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit. As part of Climate Week NYC, the summit provided space for several major announcements around the important role that cities have to play in reducing global … [continued]
Almost everyone in the media has taken a stab at summarizing, if not snap-judging, the results of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s one-day UN climate summit last week. The meeting had a real name, but Robert N. Stavins in his New York Times runup to the conference was the only writer I … [continued]
