Topic: David Miller | Cities and Climate Change.
Time: Feb 09, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Bio:
David Miller is Managing Director, C40 Centre for Urban Climate Policy and Economy. He is responsible for supporting Mayors in their climate leadership and for building a global movement for socially equitable action to mitigate and adapt to climate change. He served as Chair of C40 Cities from 2008 until 2010.
Mr. Miller was Mayor of Toronto from 2003 to 2010. Under his leadership, Toronto became widely admired internationally for its environmental leadership, economic strength, and social integration. He is a leading advocate for the creation of sustainable urban economies, and a strong and forceful champion for the next generation of jobs through sustainability. Miller has held a variety of public and private positions and served as Future of Cities Global Fellow at Polytechnic Institute of New York University from 2011 to 2014.
Mr. Miller is a Harvard trained economist, professionally a lawyer, and author of the book Solved: How the World’s Great Cities are Fixing the Climate Crisis.
Summary:
Recent extreme weather events, like the wildfires that destroyed Lytton British Columbia in 15 minutes–and the massive flooding a few months later–have made clear that climate change is not some future possible event. It is happening now and its impacts are massive. Science shows that we need to keep overall average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C, yet National Governments failed to show the needed urgency of action at the recently concluded COP26 in Glasgow. In an entertaining and lively presentation, David Miller argues from his perspective as the former Mayor of Toronto and the Managing Director of International Diplomacy at C40 cities–responsible for the participation of the Mayors of the world’s great cities at Glasgow–argues that the best hope for the world to avoid dangerous climate change lies in city-based climate action. Cities are implementing solutions now, which if adopted broadly, can get us on a collective path to halving emissions by 2030–the level science says is required if we are going to prevent climate breakdown.
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