The spreading and evolving efforts of cities to reduce GHG emissions have proceeded through three stages in the past three decades: Decarbonizing Emissions, Emphasizing Co-benefits, and Seeking Transformation. In Life After Carbon, we describe the emergence of urban transformation. From Chapter 6: As climate innovations proliferate in…
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Below is a summary of our new research report, produced with partners Cadmus Group LLC and Ramboll. Financial support provide by Summit and Kresge Foundations. Full report available here. Purpose This research project’s purpose is to identify ways to accelerate the development and growth of public and…
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Excerpt from Life After Carbon, chapter 2, “Urban Climate Innovation Laboratories” Before climate change arrived in the headlines in the late 1980s, the groundwork for climate leadership had been laid. The creators of urban climate innovation labs span three overlapping generations, each of which experienced its own jolt of awakening and…
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Our long-time friend Bob Friedman, an innovator in America’s economic justice struggle and founder of Prosperity Now, has written a new book that delivers an elegant policy solution with passion and analysis. Here’s our review: Bob Friedman’s A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone offers an…
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The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, a global collaboration of cities making deep cuts in their GHG emissions, and the Innovation Network for Communities have produced a new report, Game Changers: Bold Actions by Cities to Accelerate Progress Toward Carbon Neutrality, featuring seven Game Changers–policies, programs, investments, regulations–that CNCA cities…
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December 2, 2018 | Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Modern City Model, Urban Climate Innovation, Urban Transformation
