Making finance work for cities means making cities ready for finance
Over the next fifteen years, the global urban population is going to increase significantly, and the built environment required to…
Sino-German Urbanization Partnership strengthening around sustainable urban development
Under the umbrella of the Sino-German Urbanization Partnership, German and Chinese high-level representatives from the Ministries of Environment and local…
How these five global cities have improved their air quality
Air quality is a major issue in most large cities worldwide, but it also impacts on the surrounding rural and…
Facilitating climate solutions for local governments to raise ambition and accelerate action
Who should engage in raising ambition and accelerating climate action? Over the last two weeks, national and local representatives gathered…
From Agenda 21 to COP21: Addressing resilience in cities and informal settlements
By Omar Siddique, Senior Urban Specialist, Cities Alliance Chapter 7 on ‘human settlements’, which emerged from the first Rio Conference…
Updates from UN Bonn Climate Change Conference 2016, 16-27 May, SB44/APA1
CONFERENCE LINKS Conference website – http://unfccc.int/meetings/bonn_may_2016/meeting/9413.php IISD Earth Negotiations Coverage is available at http://www.iisd.ca/climate/sb44/ ICLEI DOCUMENTS LGMA Intervention at the…
Building Resilience in Informal Settlements
Building resilience in cities should enhance the quality of life for all residents. Yet resilience planning, like urban development, has…
Cities Are “Underdeveloped” – But Cooperation Can Change That
Through forming partnerships across different sectors of society, cities can transform themselves from being output based to outcome based, greatly…
European cities and towns acclaim the Basque Declaration
The Basque Declaration has been adopted by local and regional leaders taking part in the 8th European Conference on Sustainable…
Paradoxes Of A Smart City – Part 2: Integrated Urban Systems vs. Resilience
In our first “Paradoxes of a Smart City” post we explored the Jevons paradox and argued that cities need to…
Resilience and Sustainable Development Goal 11
SDG 11: A Stimulus for Integrated and Inclusive Resilience In adopting Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11), which aims to…
China’s New Opportunity: Water Funds
By Daniel Shemie, Kari Vigerstol, Mu Quan, Wang Longzhu The Nature Conservancy What do the Chinese cities of Harbin, Ningbo,…