Tag: C40 Voices

To help mayors of the world’s most influential and powerful cities to deliver on this incredible responsibility and opportunity, C40 Cities, the Global Covenant of Mayors, and 18 scientists from the IPCC SR1.5 today released the Summary for Urban Policymakers: What the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C means for cities. 

Ahead of COP24, C40 looks back at 2018 – a fantastic year of city climate leadership – with several city diplomacy breakthroughs, and calls for national governments to match cities’ climate ambitions at COP24 and beyond.

Thanks to today’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ‘Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C ’,  leaders in government, business and civil society now know that they must reset their goals to limit global average temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C, a commitment already made by many C40 mayors.

For more than a decade, C40 has been working with cities to develop and share policies and practices that help address climate change. We know that technological innovations cannot, in isolation, solve the challenges that cities face. Autonomous vehicle (AVs) technology is advancing at such a rate that it is now only a matter of time until AVs become the norm. Read more from C40 Executive Director Mark Watts. 

After a very exciting and successful 18 months for C40’s City Solutions Platform, C40 now welcomes Athens as the next city to receive support from the programme.