TRAILER - Cities 1.5 Season 3: Our Post-COP World & Beyond
This past December, COP28 signalled the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. 150 heads of state came to the consensus that in order to halve emissions by 2030 - the target that scientists have...
27 Feb 20242min
From global warming to global boiling: The dangerous present & future of the world’s climate
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been warning us for decades that record-breaking, hot, fire- and smoke-filled summers like the one we just experienced will continue to be the ...
28 Nov 202351min
Camino de Ecologia: Latin American Cities Innovating to Save the Planet
In the face of enforced mass migration, the rising cost of recovery from increasing climate disasters, and an uncertain future without drastic and immediate action, it’s important to hold up examples ...
21 Nov 202339min
A Tale of Two Cities: A Global North & South Case Study in Resilience
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”: the first line of the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities is an idea that the two cities featured in this episode’s case study know all to...
14 Nov 202346min
Planting 1 million trees to turn the temperature down: How cities in the Global North and South are battling extreme heat
July 2023 was the hottest month globally since records began. Combine that with several months filled with a series of extreme weather events - from heatwaves in Europe, North America and Asia, to wil...
7 Nov 202333min
How Cities can Divest
Climate breakdown is happening, and the cost of ignoring this phenomenon will be far greater than the cost of immediate action. We know that green investments promote the transition to a more resilien...
31 Okt 202350min
Beyond Growth: How cities can put people and planet first
C40 and the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy are providing an opportunity for cities to rethink conventional economic systems, like capitalism, that have led to the climate crisis. It is abu...
24 Okt 202350min
Neoliberalism and its Discontents: Is Ecological Economics the Answer?
The traditional economic concepts that the Global North has been using since WWII assume that there is an infinite planet and that pollution has no economic consequences - assumptions that are wildly ...
17 Okt 202338min
