Cities

[New] In Eastern Europe, the city of Moscow (12.5 million inhabitants, with 20 million people in its metropolitan area) is currently revising its Master Plan 2010-2035, Investment Strategy 2025 and Smart City 2030 projects in order to integrate the SDGs.
[New] The Plan Zero City Landscaping Service is being trialled in London and will be rolled-out to other major cities across the UK later in 2020.
[New] The Climate Action Playbook sets a vision for the City of Sunnyvale to reduce carbon emissions by 2050.
[New] In 2012, 54 metropolitan cities and their hinterlands accounted for 40% of India's GDP, and by 2025, 69 metropolitan cities, combined with their hinterlands, will generate over half of India's incremental GDP between 2012 and 2025.
[New] Nearly three-quarters of coastal cities in the U.S. could experience an extreme flood (a 2-percent annual chance flood) every year within the next 50 years.
[New] New York City recently passed a slate of new bills in its Climate Mobilization Act, which calls for building retrofits to achieve a 40% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
[New] Around 70% of investment is predicted to be in cities spending $1 million or less per year, with small and medium-sized cities increasingly expected to invest in relatively small projects.
[New] A steady increase of smart city development around the world with the total value of the global smart city market projected to exceed US$ 2.5 trillion by 2025.
Greater Manchester leaders are unveiling a clear single vision supported by three complimentary plans that will accelerate the city-region' s 2038 zero carbon ambitions, build a greener economy and deliver a long-term plan for development.
Rapid urbanization could push more mosquitoes to bite humans in many cities across sub-Saharan Africa over the next 30 years.
The City of Vancouver has set the target of reducing embodied carbon emissions in new buildings and construction projects by 40% compared to a 2018 baseline by 2030.
Africa is one of the least urbanized places in the world, and its urbanization rate will continue to grow among the fastest of the world regions in the coming years.
Forward leaning cities from Seattle to Singapore to London are expected to spend nearly $124 billion in 2020 on smart city initiatives, an increase of 18.9% from 2019.
Near-term climate change will not drive selection for major changes in mosquitoes preference, but that rapid urbanization could drive a shift to human-biting in many cities across sub-Saharan Africa by 2050.
Rapid urbanization currently taking place in Africa will drive further mosquito evolution, causing a shift toward human-biting in many large cities by 2050.
California has established the ambitious climate protection goal of achieving full carbon neutrality by 2045 and to do so in a way that supports the health and economic resiliency of urban and rural communities, particularly low income and disadvantaged communities.
Combined with population changes, 20-50 times as many people could be exposed to dangerous heat in African cities by the end of the century.
Urban areas are already home to more than half of the global population, and the UN predicts that number will likely increase to 60% by 2030.
The revision of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive planned for the first quarter of 2021 as part of the EU Green Deal, should finally cover electric trucks and recognise direct electrification as the dominant source to decarbonise urban and regional deliveries.
The City of Sydney - the central business district of Sydney and its surrounding inner city suburbs - will now be powered using 100% renewable energy, a switch forecast to save half a million dollars and 200,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere over the next 10 years.
In response to the ongoing climate and environmental crisis Nottingham has set an ambition to become the first carbon neutral city in the UK by 2028.
Urban land expansion in the United Kingdom (an urbanised country) may increase by 1.3-4.4 times from the present to 2100, depending on a societal route of sustainability or fossil-fuelled development.
The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than 2.1 billion urban residents, with over two-third estimated to be living in cities by 2050.

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Last updated: 09 August 2020