PRESENTATION:
How Cities Can Rapidly Accelerate Sustainable Ways of Living
Discover how city leadership helps us achieve 70% emission cuts by 2050 through lifestyle and behaviour changes.
Find out the key actions they are and can take in enabling equitable good quality living for climate and nature.
In this webinar, Urban Climate Leader Founder Shauna Sylvester discusses how cities are foundational to fighting climate change, emphasizing how in the past 20 years they have played a critical role reducing our GHG emissions. Cities that take the living systems approach - focusing on the circular economy, social and environmental procurement, workforce training - deliver impact on both a municipal and global level to fight climate change. Shauna also speaks about the importance of getting into the details of implementation. She is focused on the challenge of installing heat pumps in low-rise multi-unit residential buildings with a health, equity and economic development lens.