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4 Lessons from Bhopal and Bogotá on Launching Citywide Bike Sharing
Bike sharing has experienced astonishing growth since its first major breakthrough 20 years ago. Following the rise of dockless bike sharing, more than 1,000 cities worldwide now offer bike-sharing...
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Cities are changing at an unprecedented rate: 75 percent of the infrastructure expected to be in place by 2050 has yet to be built. Meanwhile, major adjustments are needed to reach global climate and...
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4 Keys to Unlock Innovative Urban Services for All
To compete in the urban century ahead, cities like Istanbul, Turkey will need to innovate how they deliver and finance sustainable services for all. Photo by Benoit Colin/Flickr. With rising air...
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4 Priorities for a Conversation around Habitat III
A man rides a bike in Bogota, Colombia. Sustaining a dialogue with the local community about local needs should be a priority for Habitat III’s New Urban Agenda. Photo by Juan Felipe Rubio/Flickr....
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Creating a Common Narrative for Financing a Sustainable Urban Future
Bogotá’s Transmilenio bus rapid transit (BRT) system shows how capital providers and city planners were able to finance and implement a low-carbon project at an unprecedented scale. Photo by Claudio...
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Why Sustainable Urban Development Needs Better Finance
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Finding Your Place in the Global Urban Movement to Fight Climate Change
Paris, Pittsburgh and a host of other cities are increasingly organizing around climate change. Photo by Benjamin Stäudinger / Flickr For Pittsburgh, it’s a focus on improving air quality and creating...
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Mayors: Don’t Let Food Waste Be a Wasted Opportunity
More than 1 billion tons of food goes uneaten each year. Photo by Geraint Rowland An Open Letter to the World’s Mayors: Welcome to Chicago! As you gather this week at a major climate summit, I hope you...
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How the FSCI Is Improving Urban Energy Efficiency by Encouraging Building...
The Financing Sustainable Cities Initiative connects stakeholders to improve municipal building energy efficiency. Photo by Alejandro/ Flickr The majority of the energy used by buildings is wasted,...
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Better Coordination, Engagement Needed to “Bend the Curve” for Cities, Say...
WRI Ross Center Global Director Ani Dasgupta at the World Urban Forum, February 11, 2018. Photo Credit: Valeria Gelman/WRI Cities are essential to achieve not only the New Urban Agenda, an...
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Big Picture, Small Cities: Why Urban Development Needs National Governments
City governments can play a crucial role in reducing national emissions, even amounting to 15 percent of the reductions needed to avoid the most serious levels of climate change. Photo by Claudio...
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4 Lessons on Integrated Planning: Highlights From the First GPSC City Academy
The GPSC City Academy was held in Singapore, home to the Parkroyal on Pickering, a hotel with elevated urban green space. Photo by Mariana Orloff/WRI “Integrating planning” can sound nebulous, maybe...
View ArticleHow to Prevent City Climate Action from Becoming “Green Gentrification”
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 14 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs, homes and possessions. But some people were hit harder than others. Nearly two-thirds of jobs lost...
View ArticleZero-Emission Delivery Zones: A New Way to Cut Traffic, Air Pollution and...
Urban freight and delivery services boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers switched to online shopping when businesses were forced to close. The surge in online market activity that began in...
View ArticleHow Cities Can Build Food System Resilience
Let’s not forget what we learned during 2020 about the fragility of our food supply chains: the prevailing, globalized model is as fragile as a spider web. It can shatter into dangling threads in times...
View ArticleHow Cities are Leading in the Fight Against Plastic Pollution
“Plastic kills, and the damages of plastic pollution have no borders. We cannot beat plastic pollution if we don’t tackle climate change, environmental loss and food crises at the same time.” That was...
View ArticleA Roadmap to Achieving 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy
Over the past 10 years, large energy buyers including corporations and cities have taken major strides to reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by setting 100% renewable energy targets and...
View ArticleWhat Does a Green City Look Like? Equitable, Connected and Nature-Positive.
There is no question that for the world to successfully slow and mitigate the effects of climate change, cities will need to transform. Currently, urban areas consume 78% of the world’s energy supply...
View ArticleHow Africa’s First Chief Heat Officer is Helping to Create a More Resilient...
“Climate change is affecting cities all around the world, and Freetown is no exception.” That’s what Eugenia Kargbo, Freetown’s Chief Heat Officer, told UrbanShift during the City Academy hosted in...
View ArticleIntroducing UrbanShift City Academy: A New Resource and Learning Platform to...
If you’re a regular reader of TheCityFix, you’re no stranger to the vital role that cities play in shaping the future of our planet. From leading the shift to zero-emission transportation networks to...
View ArticleBuilding Capacity to Scale Zero-Emission Buses
In the Wadala neighborhood of Mumbai, representatives from Kigali, Durban and Mauritius filed into a low, yellow-walled room. They took their seats in rows equipped with desktop computers. Ordinarily,...
View ArticleCutting Across Siloes, Catalyzing Transformative Change: WRI India’s Deep...
Bengaluru is one of the world’s fastest growing metropolitan economies. A favored destination for investors and talent alike, this leading innovation hub is one of the largest technology clusters...
View ArticleLessons From the Global South’s Public-Private Climate Collaborations
As dense hubs of diverse talent, skills and innovation, cities are perfect places for public-private collaboration. In light of urgent calls from the international community for solutions, the wealth...
View ArticleHow Data and Integrated Planning Approaches Can Help Cities Fight Air Pollution
In Bogotá, Colombia, over 3,000 people die prematurely each year due to exposure to air pollution—namely from PM2.5, a fine particulate matter produced by vehicle exhaust, burning and industrial...
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