Cities face ‘huge’ finance gap for climate-friendly infrastructure
NEWS: Mayors told they need to improve their credit ratings and produce better projects, at sustainable cities summit in Seoul
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See allAs it happened: 35 cities join Compact of Mayors on climate change
Latest updates from the ICLEI World Congress, with representatives of more than 200 cities worldwide
How can cities influence a global climate deal in Paris?
ANALYSIS: Cities are unlikely to get the formal recognition many crave at the UN climate talks, but they can make an impact
How are cities in the Philippines preparing for climate change?
INTERVIEW: The mayor of Catbalogan, Philippines, tells RTCC a series of typhoons destroyed 2,500 houses in her city
100 mayors adopt ‘Seoul Declaration’ on climate change
NEWS: City leaders commit to rhetorically ambitious but vague set of principles targeting a cleaner, low carbon urban centres
As it happened: City mayors adopt sustainability goals in Seoul
LIVE: Latest updates from the opening plenary and first sessions of the ICLEI World Congress, with representatives of more than 200 cities worldwide
Five reasons cities are key to solving climate change
ANALYSIS: They have most of the world’s people, money and emissions. While national governments talk, cities must act, say mayors at ICLEI summit in Seoul
Urban leaders gather for C40 cities and climate summit in South Africa
Mayors of the world’s leading cities met in Johannesburg this week to discuss solutions to climate change
Comment: look to cities for genuine low carbon progress
Home to 70% of humans, cities are on the frontline of the fight against global warming says ICLEI regional chief
Seoul Mayor calls for climate funds to be channelled through cities
Park Won Soon says cities are the most effective vehicle to overcome the ‘deadlock’ of the international climate talks
Mayor of Seoul aims to ‘cancel out’ a nuclear power plant with climate action
City-wide energy efficiency drive announced as South Korea continues to push the climate change agenda at home and abroad.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Including cities and local governments in international negotiations
Anke Stoffregen, from ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability explains how cities and local governments will be key players in a world increasingly marked by urbanisation and the need to harenss their power and engage them in policy making.
Go with the flow: DHL unveil new freight strategy
Could a ‘command and control’ approach to the flow of people, goods and services be the answer to rising emissions?
Planet’s largest cities commit to measuring and reporting emissions
At the ICLEI Resilient Cities conference in Bonn, 40 of the world’s most populous cities have launched a programme to measure, report and verify their carbon emissions.