SmartCitiesWorld launches Cities Climate Action Report 2022
Source: Smart Cities World
The first Cities Climate Action Report is designed to illustrate the priorities, ambitions and targets of global cities in the fight against climate change, through a combination of research data and exclusive interviews.
SmartCitiesWorld is pleased to announce the publication of the Cities Climate Action Report – the first in what will become an annual series of reports analysing urban climate action progress around the world.
The report combines the results of research partner ThoughtLab’s ‘Building a Future-Ready City’ research programme – a survey of 200 global cities – with in-depth profiles of 10 cities to understand what lessons cities have learned, how they have made decisions, how priorities are shifting, and what kind of funding and support networks exist for them as they build climate resilience and mitigation strategies.
The Cities Climate Action Report comes at a time where there is no more urgent challenge for cities around the world than climate change. Ninety-four per cent of the 200 cities who took part in the aforementioned research programme named it as one of their main challenges during the coming five years.
More than 100 stories and articles have been published this year alone on SmartCitiesWorld relating to the climate emergency – and more specifically, cities’ response to it – making our Energy & Environment section the most-read part of the platform, and demonstrating the need for detailed reporting on the subject as cities look to expand their knowledge to solve their toughest challenge.
It’s against this backdrop that the Cities Climate Action Report has been created, blending hard data from a global research programme and emissions inventory data from CDP with the qualitative information and interview-style content that SmartCitiesWorld is known for.
The 10 cities profiled in the report appear both as part of the ThoughtLab research and on the CDP A-list, where each city on the list must meet a certain criteria to become part of it, acting as a barometer of cities’ preparations to cope with the climate emergency. The 10 cities profiled are: