Jan 29, 2016 | Cities, Knowledge Networks
Transportation choices in the urban population centers is underlining the changing times. Getting a drivers’ license used to be a right of passage for every teenager. The treasured document was a ticket to autonomy and freedom, speed and excitement that every...
Dec 31, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Climate Solutions from C40 Cities and Arup Consulting The cities of the world are facing twin challenges of climate change and rapidly growing populations. Half the world’s population is already living in urban centers and that proportion is expected to rise to...
Dec 4, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks
C40 Cities, a GSN working on the sustainable development issues of climate change in urban centers, awarded 10 cities with the annual C40 Cities Award. The award program, launched in 2013, recognizes successes in programs that reduce emissions and improve...
Dec 3, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Operational and Delivery Networks
The 10% Resilience Pledge program was announced by the 100 Resilient Cities global solution network in November. The program urges mayors to promise 10% of their cities’s annual budgets toward resilience projects and goals without raising any extra funding or...
Nov 5, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Environment & Sustainability
100 Resilient Cities (100RC), and the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge are pioneering programs created by the Rockefeller Foundation with the goal of helping cities around the world develop resilience to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing...
Oct 21, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
The newly elected Oslo city council, made up of representatives from the Labor Party, the Greens and the Socialist Left, have announced a plan to ban cars from central Oslo by 2019, the date of the next municipal elections. The plan is part of a platform focused on...
