Moldova’s capital city, Chișinău, recently secured a €20 million investment to tackle flooding and pollution of the Bîc River, aiming to transform it into a valuable recreational amenity for 100,000 residents and mitigate future flood risks. This funding, which combines loans from ...
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act’s “direct pay” provision offers communities across the country access to clean energy tax credits for the first time. Just two years after it was introduced, direct pay is already helping to bring clean vehicles to ...
Wildfires have been rapidly spreading across the Los Angeles area since Jan. 7, displacing upwards of 175,000 people and claiming at least five lives as of Jan. 9. The Palisades fire — the first to erupt and the biggest blaze ...
Public transit is not only a vital network connecting people to jobs, services and one another; it’s also an important climate solution. The world needs to double public transit capacity by 2030 as part of its larger roadmap to slash planet-warming emissions ...
2024 was tumultuous. Cities saw record-breaking temperatures, a sharp uptick in climate-related disasters, violent conflict in too many places, and contentious elections that shifted local, national and regional politics. But amidst the tumult, cities centered themselves as global leaders in ...
2024 has been a tumultuous year: More than half the world’s population went to the ballot box — some voting for radical change — extraordinary weather events have devastated communities and countries have been rocked by continued violent conflict. Given ...
As the first week of COP29 drew to a close with intense debates on climate financing and ambitious targets, and just days before the G20 Leaders’ Summit, another international forum turned Rio de Janeiro into the epicenter of discussions on ...
In January 2024, the Central Business District of Cape Town, South Africa, endured a historically brutal day of heat: temperatures climbed to 44 degrees C – the highest ever measured in the city. But on that same day, people in other parts ...
Livability is key to the quality of city life as we look to the future. We don’t have to look far into that future to see how this plays out on the streets. On Sunday, December 15, 1974, a group ...
In 2019, Stellantis (then known as Fiat Chrysler) announced a $2.5 billion plan to expand and modernize two of its auto assembly plants in Detroit. This triggered the city’s Community Benefits Ordinance (CBO) — a unique law that requires companies ...
