Highlights•Transnational city-networks are mobilizing cities in the global fight against climate
change.•City-networks help build capacity to measure, report, verify emissions …

Urbanisation and climate change are urging cities to chart novel paths towards sustainable
futures. Many cities are turning to the alluring 'circular economy'(CE) concept to guide this …

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 21,
including the Paris Agreement, has underlined the role of non-state-actors in limiting …

The role of cities and their stakeholders in creating a sustainable low carbon society is
becoming increasingly critical. Cities and their supply chains are responsible for almost 80 …

An increasing number of cities and local governments adhere to transnational initiatives on
climate change mitigation, but quantification of their contribution to the Paris Agreement …

Important phenomena are emerging that increasingly call for enhanced or more coordinated
climate governance, but that seriously challenge the capacities of a traditional governance …

The global climate change agenda proceeds at an incremental pace while the Earth is
approaching critical tip** points in its development trajectory. Climate action at this …

Highlights•Rapid urban transformation is typically framed in technical and economic
terms.•The transformative potential of technical interventions is conditioned by social and …

Following the example of national pledges and strategies to tackle climate change, cities are
mobilising themselves towards decarbonisation, playing a key role in the achievement of …

Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere
that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with …