Eleni Myrivili
Cities will be the stage on which the transition to net-zero emissions is played out.“We’re testing how cities of the future can be built, developing a model quarter that’s sustainable and inclusive,” Gudrun Sack told me. Sack is managing director of Tegel Projekt GmbH, a state-owned...
The world’s population and cities are booming. With more of us set to live in cities than ever before, what do we need to do to cope?
“This has been said before, but for me good cities are machines for managing mixture,” Grant says. “By substituting public goods–particularly public transit and public space–for private ones, cities offer a (complex, imperfect) bulwark against social and economic stratification. Elites ...
Cities across the U.S. are seeing worse floods and hotter summers, but experts believe urban parks can help residents cope.
Many coastal cities are aware of the risks and taking action to prioritise resilience. At Hunter's Point South in New York City, we have carried out successful sustainable waterfront development that works with nature to protect against the growing threats of flooding, extreme rainfall and sea lev...
Idea: let’s rethink building cities on floodplains. Credit: Department of Environment and Climate Change, NSW, CC BY Such projects are a wise investment. TheArmy Corps of Engineersestimates that for every dollar spent on preparing for the anticipated effects of climate change – adapting, in ...
Sector-specific transition pathways are critical to the financial industry’s ability to turn climate ambition into climate action. Learn more. 31 Aug 2022Tom Groom+ 1 Four steps financial institutions can take on the path to net zero Innovative decarbonization strategies linked t...
The reality is that resilience building is a multi-sector, multi-level kind of enterprise. AD: How do you measure how resilient a city is? MB: Measurement is an incredibly difficult and complex task. Cities are very complex ecosystems with lots of different components, and just trying to ...
how they might stop it from even happening. They should know as purported fiscal conservatives how expensive their ignorance is. I’ve always said we need to build resilience locally. We’re part of the network of 100 Resilient Cities, which the Rockefeller Foundation founded, and we had w...