Tag: World Bank

All climate action is ultimately local. Thus cities must take the lead in lowering greenhouse gas emissions, creating green cities, being energy efficient, building mass transit, becoming more resilient and resource efficient, reducing waste and harnessing the digital age to deliver services to their citizens and focusing on sustainability.

VIDEO: At the start of December 2015, all eyes were on Paris for the COP21 climate negotiations, regarded by many as a pivotal moment in determining global climate action. C40 was fortunate to be there on the ground to help showcase innovative and effective climate actions taking place in the world’s cities. Watch Abha Joshi-Ghani, Director, Leadership, Learning and Innovation at the World Bank Group, as she discusses her experience as a member of the jury panel for the 2015 C40 Cities Awards.

At this year’s Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria sat down with C40 Chair and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to discuss “Building Resilient Cities and Coasts.” Additional panelists included World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin.

Earlier this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the full findings of its latest report on climate change. This report is the fifth such assessment that focuses on the physical science basis of climate change; in 2014 two other IPCC working groups will release reports on the topics of climate change adaptation and mitigation, respectively.

Recent transportation advances in Nigeria’s most populous city have caught the attention of Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank. During a discussion session at the 10th Annual Transforming Transportation Conference in Washington, DC, hosted by the World Bank and EMBARQ, Kim commended the implementation of the Mile 12 - CMS Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, a branch of the Lagos Urban Transport Project (LUTP).