News Article December 7, 2017
Commentary: Three new trends that could avert city gridlock
There are three major opportunities for city governments to use new technologies to take the battle out of your trip across town.
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- News Article November 17, 2017
Commentary: If we act on climate change now, the economic prize will be immense
Acting on climate change can certainly be driven by pure pragmatism: the economics of it are clear, writes Felipe Calderón.
- News Article November 17, 2017
Release: Indonesia advances first Low Carbon Development Initiative at COP23
• Indonesia’s five-year development plan to double as first Low Carbon Development Initiative.
• Indonesian ministers and key international advisers advance project financing at COP23.
• With fourth largest population and the fifth highest emissions, climate impact significant. - News Article November 12, 2017
RELEASE: New Urban Leadership Council Aims to Make Economic Case for Better Cities
The Council comprises leaders of the world’s most prominent urban, development, and climate focused organizations.
- News Article November 7, 2017
Commentary: How cities can harness the good -- and avoid the bad -- of the new mobility movement
Ani Dasgupta, Global Director of the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, writes on how new mobility services can be effectively combined and leveraged with existing public transport options.
- News Article November 1, 2017
New Research: Connected Urban Growth: Public-Private Collaborations for Transforming Urban Mobility
New mobility services could improve the lives of all urban inhabitants. This first ever global survey finds that applying three types of new mobility services – electric, on-demand minibuses, subsidized shared rides, and trip-planning and ticketing apps – can make public transport more affordable, accessible and sustainable, if integrated properly.
- News Article October 24, 2017
Commentary: Africa's impala-like leap into a green industrial economy
Global Commissioner Carlos Lopes explains how Africa can avoid the polluting stage of industrialisation, and go straight to low carbon prosperity
- News Article October 24, 2017
Commentary: Africa's Green Growth Opportunity
Fostering entrepreneurship, including green entrepreneurship, is a key policy aim for African countries, says Milan Brahmbhatt.
- News Article October 23, 2017
New Research: Green Industrialisation and Entrepreneurship in Africa
Policies that encourage sustainable growth and entrepreneurship have the potential to ignite a green industrial revolution in Africa. Transformative economic and ‘green growth’ policies, combined with entrepreneurship, could enable Africa to ‘leap frog’ to a clean, resource-efficient modern economy.
- News Article October 18, 2017
New Research: Financing the Urban Transition-- Policymakers' Summary
Urbanisation is one of the most important potential drivers of productivity and growth in the global economy. But if countries and cities are to capture the productivity benefits of urban growth while minimising the costs, cities will need to shift to a more economically and environmentally sustainable growth pattern.