Whats up with reflection from the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco 12-14 September 2018
September 15, 2018
Posted by Kaj Embren
Archives for Climate negotiation
An agreement was reached at the Paris Summit – but now we need the financial markets to help deliver it
March 29, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e_P_8dP6EQ Now that 195 nations have promised to signed up to the Paris climate agreement, the hard work begins. The signatories have all committed to ramping up their fight against climate change, but what happens next will prove crucial. The new five-year national plans to reduce global warming will provide the roadmap for action. Continuing… » read more
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Failure to reach UN climate change agreement could be “very dangerous,” warn influential city mayors
November 18, 2015
Twenty city mayors from five Nordic countries have joined forces in urging world governments to reach meaningful agreements at the forthcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. In an op-ed published in the magazine Cities Today, the influential group warns that any repeat of disputes which hampered previous summits would prove “very dangerous, since the… » read more
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Nordic Mayors and cities: on the road to Paris and beyond
August 21, 2015
In the last days of June, 20 Nordic mayors, nine representatives from Nordic cities, and 45 experts in urban development and climate change (from as far afield as the US, Africa and India) converged in Gotland, Sweden. They joined together for a special event at Almedalen Week – a series of talks and seminars geared… » read more
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On a recent trip to San Francisco and Austin, Texas, I found myself accompanied by two potential agents of change – Benjamin Barber’s book If Mayors Ruled the World and a newly appointed Swedish city mayor, Niklas Nordström. The former has the power to inspire and empower local politicians who wish to take on… » read more
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Mayors network listed – will Mayors take the lead on a climate deal?
October 19, 2014
National governments have proven that they do not have what is required to meet the global challenges of climate change and the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. The shortcomings of the COP meeting since Copenhagen acts as testament to this. With the burden of recession and austerity, short-sighted national governments have thus far shown… » read more
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Climate Change, Leadership and sustainability, Sustainability, Sustainable Dev., Uncategorized , Climate negotiation, Eco Cities, Sustainability and Leadership, Sustainable Cities |
33 Mayors network listed – will they act for a climate deal?
October 22, 2013
National governments have proven that they do not have what is required to meet the global challenges of climate change and the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. The shortcomings of the COP meeting since Copenhagen acts as testament to this. With the burden of recession and austerity, short-sighted national governments have thus far shown… » read more
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Climate Change, Leadership and sustainability, Uncategorized , Climate change, Climate negotiation, COP19, Sustainability and Leadership, Sustainable Cities |
Good Night Doha and Wake Up!
November 23, 2012
Why should we give any hope to national governments to succeed in a deal on Climate Change. It is a waste of money to take more then 10.000 people to a negotiation in Doha based on false hope. It is time to create a parallel negotiation with city leaders and put the investors money into… » read more
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Global problems, local solutions
August 27, 2012
The unprecedented success of the London 2012 Olympic Games has once again shown the global role that cities now hold.The opening ceremony focused on work and health as it celebrated the community spirit at the heart of the Olympic ideal. Over the two weeks that followed, London emphasized the importance of cooperating around a joint… » read more
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