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Urban centres provide opportunities for a range of social and cultural activities, as well as being critical for innovations in science, technology and education. They are also of critical importance for social and economic development. However, with approximately 40% of global energy use taking place within city buildings, this sector is also the single largest contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions.
As a result, the design and use of energy and resource-efficient buildings has a key role in climate change mitigation to accelerate the global green economy transition. Although vast savings are possible by constructing new green buildings and retrofitting existing buildings, even greater gains can be achieved by adopting a long-term life-cycle approach involving stakeholders at different stages – from environmentally-minded investors and architects, to sustainable extraction, construction and usage, and the eventual demolition and the recycling or disposal of the building materials.
Cities are well-placed to play a major role in decoupling economic development from resource use and environmental impacts, while finding a better balance between social, environmental and economic objectives. Resource-efficient cities combine greater productivity and innovation with lower costs and reduced environmental impacts, offering at the same time financial savings and increased sustainability.
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"We've already known for decades that cities function better, are cleaner, more sustainable, more equitable, if you create services in the proximity of where people live," said Rogier Vandenberg, acting global director of the Ross Center for Sustainable Cities at the World Resources Institute.
Experiments have already taken place in the wake of the pandemic to reduce travel time and enable people to live and work locally, including Melbourne's 20-minute neighbourhoods and the Paris 15-minute city.
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Washington DC’s Environmental Impact Bond Greening the City
Greening Sydney 2030
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PART 2 - The Stockholm+50 Preparation meeting (part 2). CCCRdg will follow the agenda and hope it promote Inclusion within societies and “globally”, thus Stockholm50 becoming an equity project - a healthy planet for the prosperity of all species.
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! The Stockholm+50 Preparation meeting. CCCRdg will follow the agenda and hope it promote Inclusion within societies and “globally”, thus Stockholm50 becoming an equity project - a healthy planet for the prosperity of all species.
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Perth’s Climate-independent Water Source
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Raingardens of Milwaukee
Financing to Scale Up Nature-based Solutions
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Watch this space: sub-national engagement track in the lead up to Stockholm+50. Wireframe for the background paper coming forward. Get ready to contribute, let us know whether you'd like to host an outreach call with sub-national leaders, or whether you, as a sub-national leader, would like to lend your voice to the effort.
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The latest UN climate science report says there is no longer any doubt. To prevent climate catastrophe, we need to switch away from fossil fuels fast.
But what about those parts of the world that, while sharing the perils of climate change, have not enjoyed the increased wealth or living standards that come with economic development?
Tune into this episode of Stakeholder Capitalism, where it explores the climate crisis and its complex relationship with the story of economic development over the past 200 years: