C40 Cities

A global network of city mayors delivering urgent climate solutions.

Protecting the people and places we love. 🌳🌍🌆💚

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Read more in our new report:
https://t.co/7jZ6ttKJC9

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5 cities prioritising electric charging ⚡

As many drivers make the transition to electric vehicles, cities play a key role in implementing charging infrastructure.

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By making sure chargers are available in every community, cities support businesses, incentivise those who drive the most, and create cleaner, healthier transport systems.

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🏙️Urban planning is coming to Jordan: Minecraft‑style.

Through the latest Schools Reinventing Cities challenge, students in Amman are reimagining their communities from the ground up using Minecraft Education.

From sustainability to inclusive design, this challenge puts young city‑planners in the driver’s seat, exploring real urban challenges and proposing creative, sustainable solutions.

Learn how students are crafting the future of Amman in this article from @C40Cities:
👉 https://t.co/w1MVO3Qn0Q

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🇬🇷Athens is implementing heatwave warnings and constructing green areas with cooling spots

🇦🇷Buenos Aires is planting trees, building green walls and creating shaded gathering spaces.

🇺🇸New York deployed over 20 pop-up cooling stations during the hottest months.

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This week, we're celebrating cities taking action for Global Heat Action Day and @unep's 50 Cities at 50°C campaign.

From Freetown to Milan, here's how cities are protecting people from dangerous indoor temperatures ➡️

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🇮🇹Milan converted a schoolyard into a cool gathering space for the community.

🇲🇾Kuala Lumpur added greening and shading, held talks around heat awareness, and opened a dedicated cooling centre for residents.

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How are cities responding to the climate crisis every day and protecting residents?

New from the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, this issue focuses on advancing equity and justice, covering adaptation and resilience in cities.

Read here: https://t.co/C0tXsb9qUN

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Mayors are their communities' frontline protectors.

In 2015, @yakisawyerr received a Gold Medal for her work during the Sierra Leone Ebola crisis.

This week, she spoke to @bbcworldservice about her experience and how it may help the current outbreak in DR Congo.

[Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE @yakisawyerr]

As the World Health Organization (WHO) declares the Ebola outbreak a Global Health Emergency of International Concern, I was interviewed on BBC Newsday this morning sharing experiences from the 2014-2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. #PreventEbola

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As the closest level of government to communities, mayors are already leading the charge on inclusive climate action.

The climate crisis is a crisis of inequality: climate justice requires social justice. City-led action, rooted in data and science, is critical to achieve both.

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A healthy, clean, and sustainable environment is a human right.

This UN resolution, adopted by an overwhelming consensus, is a vital and historic step for climate action to be an obligation for governments to protect their residents, not a choice.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I welcome the adoption of the General Assembly resolution on the @CIJ_ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change – a powerful affirmation of international law, climate justice, science & the responsibility of states to protect people from the escalating climate crisis.

Those least responsible for climate change are paying the highest price.

That injustice must end.

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Your phone. Your coffee. Your sneakers. Most of what we use every day arrived by sea.

In the Cities 1.5 season finale, David Miller and Eric Garcetti discuss the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Shanghai Green Shipping Corridor and cleaner global trade: https://t.co/0v6F2xfzrg

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All these tweets were found by using @tortoise Hot Air tool.

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Climate disinformation mainly falls into 3 categories: deny, delay and control. Can you spot the tactics from these real tweets? 🧵⬇️

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Question 3⃣

Spot the tactic:
🔴 Deny
🟥 Control
❌ Delay

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We are the answer.
Cities are leading the fight.
The time is now.

🎨 Artwork by: Wyda Swestika

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🌎 The Reinventing Cities competition has just launched in Bologna, Belo Horizonte & Portugalete (Bilbao Metropolitano).

We’re looking for architects & planners to propose urban projects aimed at reimagining sites into green, thriving & inclusive areas.

https://t.co/3VVIkToEHD