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Acting on climate change can certainly be driven by pure pragmatism: the economics of it are clear, writes Felipe Calderón.
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.
Global Commissioner Carlos Lopes explains how Africa can avoid the polluting stage of industrialisation, and go straight to low carbon prosperity
Fostering entrepreneurship, including green entrepreneurship, is a key policy aim for African countries, says Milan Brahmbhatt.
Cities that are designed and managed well – where people have plentiful options to move around without cars or do not have to go far to get work done – are powerful drivers of growth, creating good jobs and making them attractive places to live, says Lord Nicholas Stern.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala writes that an international effort is under way to encourage countries to remove policies that may contradict their otherwise sincere efforts to reduce carbon emissions.