Tag: C40 Cities
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Mayors Call for More Stimulus Funds for Green Recovery
Investing COVID stimulus funds in green solutions would create 50 million jobs, prevent 270,000 premature deaths, and deliver $280bn in economic benefits globally
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Urban Grown Food, Africa Response to Pandemic
Where food comes from, how people access it, and what they are eating are all central to the COVID-19 response and recovery strategy for African cities.
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Danish cities engage climate action planning in line with the Paris Agreement
Municipalities now have access to tools to help them create new policies to reduce carbon emissions.
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“Why we support the Global Climate Strikes”
Young people are telling us that the climate emergency demands an emergency response. We couldn’t agree more. Mayor of Paris & Chair of C40 Cities, Anne Hidalgo; Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio; Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, and Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen today released the following statement in support of the […]
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10 Latin American Cities Commit to Develop Climate Action Plans on the Objectives of the Paris Agreement
Buenos Aires, Curitiba, Guadalajara, Lima, Medellín, Mexico City, Quito, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, and São Paulo today revealed their commitment to bold climate action and pledged to deliver on their share of the Paris Agreement. C40’s Climate Action Planning Latin America Program provides direct support to the 10 cities in developing robust and evidence-based long-term climate action plans […]
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“License to Pollute” overturned by top European court
The General Court of the European Union upholds action brought by cities: annuls in part the European Commission’s regulation setting excessively high NOx emission limits tests introduced following Dieselgate scandal The General Court of the European Union today found in favor of a legal case brought by the cities of Paris, Madrid and Brussels to […]
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C40 Cities Finances New Sustainable Infrastructure
Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Montería, Tshwane, Quito, Curitiba, Quezon City, and Dar es Salaam will receive support in implementing sustainable projects Berlin, Germany.Nine cities will receive specialist financial advice and bespoke support from leading global experts to develop sustainable infrastructure projects from great ideas and plans into fully financed reality. The Colombian cities of Bogotá, Bucaramanga, […]
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European Mayors Respond to Trump as he Announces Pullback from Paris Accord
Donald Trump has announced that he will withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Paris Mayor and C40 Chair Anne Hidalgo and several other global C40 mayors have made statements reacting to the news. European Mayors (Clockwise): Raymond Johansen (Oslo), Karin Wanngård (Stockholm), Anne Hidalgo (Paris), Giuseppe Sala (Milan) “Climate change is real: it […]