{"id":63422,"date":"2021-11-04T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T05:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=63422"},"modified":"2021-11-04T20:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:50:28","slug":"urban-leaders-influencers-chart-new-path-for-world-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/urban-leaders-influencers-chart-new-path-for-world-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban leaders, influencers, chart new path for world cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Mayors of Mexico City, Bogot\u00e1, New Orleans, Freetown, Gaziantep and Barcelona joined other urban leaders, designers, activists and thinkers from around the world on Wednesday, to chart a new path for cities. A launch event called Cities at the Crossroads, kicked off at the British Academy in London \u2013 marking the inaugural session of the new UN-backed Council on Urban Initiatives. The international group of eighteen mayors, activists and academics was formed in response to UN Secretary-General\u2019s call to use the COVID-19 pandemic as an \u201copportunity to reflect and reset how we live, interact, and rebuild our cities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Council\u2019s mission is to ensure a healthy global debate over urban issues, to help chart a sustainable future. The work will be organized around three challenges: the JUST city, the HEALTHY city and the GREEN city, said UN-Habitat. The new Council starts its work as the UN\u2019s COP26 climate conference continues in Glasgow, Scotland, trying to keep the goal of 1.5 degrees of global warming, within reach. Being responsible for approximately 75 per cent of the world\u2019s energy consumption and over 70 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, cities are at the core of climate action. Also this Wednesday, at the World Expo in Dubai, the UN launched the Climate Smart Cities Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is an open innovation competition to identify climate smart solutions and reduce urban impact, between the cities of Bogot\u00e1, Colombia; Bristol, United Kingdom; Curitiba, Brazil; and Makindye Ssabagabo, Uganda. According to UN-Habitat, \u201cthe climate ambitions of these cities are impressive and addressing them will have a powerful impact in shaping how city leaders, innovators and local communities respond to the climate emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With these four cities selected, the competition is now asking innovators, including technologists, start-ups, developers, finance experts and more, to submit their best solutions to the unique challenges identified. The application period closes on 5 January. Up to 80 finalists (up to 20 per city) will be selected to work closely with these four cities, learn more about their challenges, collaborate on solutions, and ultimately form teams to demonstrate solutions in the real-world.<\/p>\n<p>The winning teams will share up to 400,000 Euros to leverage further investment and build towards system demonstration in 2023. Around 4.5 billion people live in cities today, but that number is projected to grow by almost 50 per cent, by 2050. By mid-century, over 1.6 billion urban residents may have to survive through average summertime highs of 35 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/11\/1104752\">The UN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayors of Mexico City, Bogot\u00e1, New Orleans, Freetown, Gaziantep and Barcelona joined other urban leaders, designers, activists and thinkers from around the world on Wednesday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,77],"tags":[2110,15779,7742,6546],"class_list":["post-63422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csr-news-en","category-weeks-highlights","tag-city","tag-interact","tag-live","tag-rebuild","wpcat-32-id","wpcat-77-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mexico-city.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63524,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63422\/revisions\/63524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}