Textiles have been concomitant of human civilization for thousands of years. With the
advances in chemistry and materials, integrating textiles with energy harvesters will provide …

The UN-HABITAT III conference held in Quito in late 2016 enshrined the first Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) with an exclusively urban focus. SDG 11, as it became known …

This article quantifies the net aggregate impact in 2030 of commitments by individual non-
state and subnational actors (eg regions, cities and businesses, collectively referred to as …

A major challenge for cities taking action on climate change is assessing and managing the
contribution of urban consumption which triggers greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions outside …

Action-oriented summits like the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit and 2019 UN Climate
Action Summit, have become a major feature of global climate governance. Their emphasis …

Cities representing more than one third of the EU population have already developed their
mitigation action plans with the support of the Covenant of Mayors initiative. This study digs …

The Paris agreement recognises the key role of local authorities in reaching the 1, 5° C
target. The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) has been an unprecedented phenomenon in the …

How to ensure success for climate change mitigation policies? For the past decades, local
climate action has been amongst the main global priorities. The Covenant of Mayors …

Cities are loci of intense consumption of energy and resources and thus hotspots of
greenhouse gas emissions with global environmental impacts. While increasingly …

At COP21 in Paris, governments reiterated the importance of 'non-Party'contributions,
placing big bets that the efforts of cities, regions, investors, companies, and other social …