Climate change is one of the most important ethical issues of our time. Urban scholars and policymakers now recognise the need to address justice concerns associated with cities’ responses to climate change. However, little empirical research has examin
Some of the states most affected by climate change are taking steps to control emissions. Last week,California announcedit would shift to 50 percent clean energy by 2026, and to 100 percent clean energy by 2045. And local governments from citiesaround the worldhave announced clean energy regul...
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4). The results show that although the frequency of a 20-year hot event is expected to increase in all cities, a 20-year dry event is expected to become less frequent in most cities located in the Southeast, Midwest-Great Plains North NCA region, and have no significant change in some ...
the Paris Agreement, triple renewable energy capacity globally by 2030, implement respective national methane action plans, implement technologies and measures to control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollutants, and support climate cooperation between states, provinces, and cities in each ...
Their case – one ofmore than two dozeninvolvingU.S. cities, counties and states suing the oil industryover climate change – just got a break from the U.S. Supreme Court. That has significantly increased their odds of succeeding.
cities was based on their performance on climate change issues as reported by ICLEI’s CCP reports of milestones accomplished (http://www.iclei.org/). All of the cities in the analysis belong to the group of the 50 largest (by population) cities in the United States. The first group of...
We found that tweets posted early, and which were then shared by other influential Twitter users, were among the most popular. Finally, we found that the most popular tweets belonged to individual scientists or respected news outlets, with no evidence that misinformation about climate change-...
scenecan't really be judged in terms of individual buildings, but rather in terms of the city as a whole. She not only cofounded theCanadian Center for Architecture (CCA), but also helped reshape the way cities likeMontrealthink about heritage and the importance of community voices in urban...
Climate change and urban development are projected to substantially warm US cities, yet dynamic interaction between these two drivers of urban heat may modify the warming. Here, we show that business-as-usual GHG-induced warming and corresponding urban expansion would interact nonlinearly, reducing ...