Empowered women are not only critical for the environment, but also crucial to the global economy, write Kristalina Georgieva and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Home to more than a billion people, these countries are charting a dynamic path towards low-carbon wealth. To stay the course, they'll need to confront three issues: inclusive development, rapidly-expanding cities and economy-wide measures for reducing carbon emissions, writes Priyanka Mohanty.
It is all our responsibility to ensure that a sustainable future holds a place for everyone, writes Sharan Burrow.
2018 must be a year in which governments, business, investors and civil society step up and publicly commit to enhancing their climate commitments by 2020, writes Helen Mountford.
In order to capitalize on the current rapid pace of urbanization and build thriving cities for all, national governments must ensure that transport and housing policies, in particular, support and enable cities, rather than hold them back, writes Rachel Spiegel.
African cities are too often developing in ways that perpetuate poverty and marginalisation, writes Sarah Colenbrander.
This paper is a background review representing part of the initial phase of the Financing the Urban Transition work programme. The review builds on a growing body of research that highlights both the importance of national sustainable infrastructure and the need to develop more effective and efficient financing mechanisms for delivering compact, connected cities that meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. While progress has been made in both these areas over the last five years, there remains a policy gap between the international/national level and the municipal level.
Future-smart investments are those that are sustainable, writes Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
There are three major opportunities for city governments to use new technologies to take the battle out of your trip across town.
Acting on climate change can certainly be driven by pure pragmatism: the economics of it are clear, writes Felipe Calderón.