🏙 As the world grapples with the #ClimateCrisis, cities are finding new ways to cut emissions and keep citizens safe.
🌏 Here are 5 places leading a green revolution. What can we learn from them?🧵
🇬🇧 London
Mayor @SadiqKhan wants to make the English capital a greener city by:
🟢Cleaning up toxic air
🟢Investing in low-carbon homes
🟢Introducing more electric vehicles
🤝 But he needs to work with local and national authorities for more progress.
longreads.trust.org/item/London-C4…
🏴 Glasgow
💰 25% of Glaswegians suffer from fuel poverty. How can the green transition include them?
🟢 From retrofitting homes to investing in heat pumps, here's how the #COP26 host is leading the way for a ‘just transition’.👇
🇨🇴 Bogota
🚎Transport accounts for nearly half of the Colombian capital's greenhouse gas emissions
🗣The city asked residents to suggest ways to make transport more eco-friendly
🛣One of the results? A plan to transform a 23km road into a Green Corridor
longreads.trust.org/item/Bogota-C4…
🇮🇳 Mumbai
☔️ Heavy rains in the Indian city have claimed more than 400 lives in the last decade, and caused over 170 landslides.
🌊 Solutions include new water-trapping reservoirs.
❓ What else is on the table? longreads.trust.org/item/Mumbai-C4…
🇺🇸 Los Angeles
📉 LA is aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050 by relying more on renewable energy and getting #EVs on the streets, among other measures.
⭕️But it’s also making sure its climate action promotes racial and economic justice.
longreads.trust.org/item/Los-Angel…
🟢 When cities invest in climate-smart ideas, they not only cut emissions but help them adapt to a warmer future.
🗣 “Climate-smart ideas bring lots of side benefits,” writes @BrodieBoland and Milag San Jose-Ballesteros of @C40Cities.
news.trust.org/item/202107231…
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