Mayors from the C40 Cities network, union leaders and the International Energy Agency want to protect vulnerable residents by scaling investment in relief, retrofits and renewables in cities.
At the conclusion of the UN Climate Action Summit, chair of C40 and mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, urged all nation states to step up and commit to science-based targets.
Projects from Chicago, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Paris and Reykjavik have been chosen in the first round of the organisation’s Reinventing Cities competition.
Breathe London will use a range of fixed and mobile sensors, including Google Street View cars, to build up a real-time, hyperlocal image of the UK capital’s air quality