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  • FASTER, SMARTER, GREENER: The state of city innovation on climate change and other urban challenges

    Municipal governments around the world are facing challenges of increasing complexity, including climate change and the need for sustainable, resilient and low carbon development. This report presents the findings from a survey and case study analysis of 50 diverse cities to understand how they are identifying and communicating their challenges; finding solutions to these challenges; and what barriers they faced in implementing these solutions.

    Agile Cities

  • Global outdoor LED trials

    LED outdoor products can cut energy consumed by lighting by more than half, LED products have now reached technological maturity for applications such as street lighting, and Canada and Québec are well positioned to benefit from an LED scale-up.

    Global Outdoor LED Trials: Analysis for lighting managers (English/French)

  • Shaping China’s Climate Finance Policy

    The Shaping China’s Climate Finance Policy report calls for a two stage plan to reform China’s climate finance mechanisms by 2020.

    china finance report

  • Insight Briefing | Unlocking low carbon innovation

    At the World Economic Forum in Davos, we shared the first of our Insight Briefings. This is the executive summary.

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  • Post-COP18 briefing

    The 18th UN Climate Conference closed on Saturday December 8, in Doha, Qatar, with a generally weak, but not unexpected outcome.

    Briefing Papers Postcop18
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