The City of Stockholm hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Thursday, 3 December. Entitled “Stockholm – how to be fossil fuel free by 2040,” the session presented Stockholm’s ambitious targets and its plans for reaching them. As Gustaf Landahl (Head of Department for Environmental Administration, Stockholm) pointed
Dejan Crnek, Vice-Mayor of Ljubljana (Slovenia), talks about the importance of transformative actions to change cities, as well as about the key role of innovation to achieve sustainable cities.
Fabrice Roussel, Vice-President of Nantes Métropole and Mayor of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre (France) explains how the city is working to change because, as he says, “the fight against climate change is all about changing cities”.
The City of Gothenburg hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Thursday, 3 December. Entitled “Gothenburg: Green Bonds and sustainable urban development,” the session examined the challenges and opportunities for cities to finance sustainable urban development with green bonds. Green Bonds are a financial tool designed to counter
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Thursday 3 December. Entitled “What cities can do to improve climate and clean air,” the session allowed participants to share experiences on reaching climate and clean air objectives through the targeting of short-lived climate
Gheorge Falca, Mayor of Arad (Romania), shares his vision for how tranformative actions can change cities and which role innovation plays.
Thomas Hermann, Mayor of Hannover (Germany) is asked about the power of transformative actions to change cities, and the role of innovation to achieve low-carbon and sustainable cities.
World Resources Institute (WRI) hosted a session at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Tuesday 2 December. Entitled “Better Cities in a New Climate Economy,” the session shared the results of the New Climate Economy (NCE) cities work, which underscores the important role that well-planned urbanization can have on economic, social,
In a session entitled “Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Management in Asian Cities,” the OECD came together with the Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management (GIDRM) at the Cities & Regions Pavilion at COP21 to discuss Climate Resilience in the context of Asian Cities. The session, which considered key policy challenges to the promotion of
The City of Bristol hosted a workshop at the Cities & Regions Pavilion – TAP2015 at COP21 on Tuesday, 1 December. Entitled “Economics of a Low Carbon City: Mini-Stern for Cities”, the session explored the most effective and efficient ways to decarbonize cities. In particular, it examined the Mini-Stern approach, which reviews the wide range