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PROGRAM AREAS

Sustainable Cities

Overview | Strategies


Strategies


1) Supporting common frameworks and indicators for Sustainable Cities that:

  • Help cities establish baselines, targets, plans, policies, measures, and verification;
  • Distill best thinking into an understandable set of components;
  • Illuminate how the components function to maintain sustainability;
  • Detail paths to success that are scalable and easily adaptable to local conditions; and
  • Facilitate widespread adoption through a transparent process that engages a diverse set of stakeholders and promotes collaboration and comparison.

2) Supporting inspirational models of Sustainable Cities that:

  • Advance practical, leveragable and transferrable solutions;
  • Establish new model policies that increase city sustainability and;
  • Demonstrate city sustainability at a systemic level.

3) Supporting Visionaries that:

  • Inspire, inform and motivate city leaders;
  • Trigger a movement for city sustainability; and
  • Identify trends, suggest alternatives and inspire best practices.

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