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    C40 Cities Featured for their Climate Action and Leadership at Public Exhibition in Paris

    September 14, 2016

    Today, C40 Chair-Elect, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo launched “Cap sur la COP22,” a public exhibition that showcases actions cities, citizens and local businesses take every day to combat climate change. In the large photograph installations along the Seine river, “Cap sur la COP22” highlights the accomplishments a number of C40 cities have achieved since the Paris Agreement and the challenges that lie ahead. 

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    • Paris Agreement
    • Paris
    • Mayor Hidalgo
    • Mayor Paes
    • Rio+C40
    • Rio de Janeiro
    • Olympics
    • C40 Mayors Summit
    • COP21
    • Climate Change
    • Mark Watts
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    7,100 Cities From 119 Countries Join Together in Historic Collaboration to Accelerate Climate Action

    June 23, 2016

     

    Note: this article was originally published on EcoWatch.

    By Mark Watts, Executive Director, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
    & Gino Van Begin, Secretary General, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability

    When UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change Michael R. Bloomberg suggested creating a Compact of Mayors to mirror the UN programme for national commitments on climate change, it was not possible to guess how central the idea would become to putting mayors at the heart of global climate action. But it turned out to be a game changer.

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    • Compact of Mayors
    • ICLEI
    • Mark Watts
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    C40's Executive Director Mark Watts: Mayors Are Changing the Way We Think About Food

    June 13, 2016

    Citizens in most of the world’s cities might expect their mayor to take responsibility for collecting waste, running public transport, or regulating new development, but they might not consider food to be an issue for urban local government. Yet in October 2015, when Mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia called upon his fellow mayors to sign the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, 120 cities from around the world, including London, Mexico City, Quito and Shanghai, chose to join forces in an effort to build sustainable and equitable urban food systems. This incredible show of commitment by mayors is an indication of how critical food production and consumption is becoming to protecting our climate, and the health and well-being of urban citizens.

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    • Food Systems
    • Mark Watts
    • Stockholm
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    Boston Mayor Marty Walsh speaks on global challenge of climate change at U.S.-China Low-Carbon Cities Summit in Beijing

    June 7, 2016

    Note: The following text has been adapted from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's speech today at The Second China-U.S. Climate-Smart Low-Carbon Cities Summit in Beijing. 

    Almost every country in the world is becoming more urban. We can say now, as much as ever, that cities are the future. 

    This is a trend—one of many—that is bringing China and the United States closer together. As we become more urban, we become more connected: through technology, through economic relations, through cultural exchange. Therefore as cities, we take on greater ability—and greater responsibility—to collaborate, to innovate, and to lead together on the world’s hardest challenges.

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    • Boston
    • Wuhan
    • Guangzhou
    • Mark Watts
    • China
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    Creating a Common Narrative for Financing a Sustainable Urban Future

    March 23, 2016

    Good ideas that get cities results are worth replicating. Sounds simple enough. But when it comes to scaling up and investing in sustainable urban solutions, it’s complicated. 

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    • partnerships
    • Sustainable Infrastructure Finance
    • Finance and Economic Development
    • Mark Watts
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