https://www.scmp.com/rss/503565/feed Naoko Ishii is a former finance minister of Japan. She is CEO and chair of the Global Environment Facility, whose new Sustainable Cities Impact Programme is helping cities tackle the drivers of environmental degradation in an integrated way that factors land use and natural resources into all aspects of planning. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com We are in the age of urbanisation. For the first time in human history, over half the world’s population now lives in cities; within a generation, urban areas will be the dominant drivers of global consumer demand and natural resource use. This is excellent news: good choices made today about how cities are planned and organised – how they use land, energy and materials – will bolster the future health of our planet. Instead of thinking of cities as pressure points for the global environment, we... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3048897/fight-against-climate-change-cities-need-not-be-hotbeds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3048897/fight-against-climate-change-cities-need-not-be-hotbeds?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:00:17 +0000