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COP 23: Three ways cities are leading the fight against climate change

Cities across the world are increasingly incorporating living infrastructure, to deliver social, environmental and economic services to urban communities

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Barbara Norman | The Conversation
The global population is predicted to rise to 10 billion by 2050, and the majority of those people will live in cities. Given that cities already account for 75% of the world’s energy use and 76% of carbon dioxide emissions, there’s a growing focus on how urban planning and design can reduce emissions and help humanity to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Representatives of the world’s global powers have gathered in Bonn to attend the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change – more pithily known as COP

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