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SUMMARY:Greener cities\, cooler planet\, healthier people: unleashing the power of urban nature
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCity life is becoming the default human experience. While being engines for development\, exchange and opportunity\, cities and their expected growth are also exacerbating some of the world’s most serious environmental challenges\, including rising temperatures\, biodiversity loss and land use change. Cities will have to handle increasing climate risks: by 2050\, 1.6 billion city residents will face extreme heat and by 2100\, cities around the world could warm by 4°C on average\, exposing the growing urban population to conditions that will damage human health\, productivity\, and quality of life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo make peace with nature and beat the rising heat\, we need to design and redesign our urban environments with nature in mind. The good news is that protecting and restoring natural ecosystems can help improve quality of life in cities. Nature-based solutions can provide natural cooling\, better air and water quality\, and healthier communities\, but the benefits and ecosystem services that biodiversity provides need to be better understood and leveraged to increase implementation and bring about change at a local and global level.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis session will focus on the role of nature as an adaptation tool\, and how national and local governments can provide access to cooling while mitigating climate risks and supporting biodiversity. The discussion will enable exchanges between global experts\, countries and cities on the opportunities to catalyze restoration in the framework of urban planning. It will include announcements on cities’ commitments to the Nature for Cool Cities Challenge\, and on global collaboration in the framework of the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. A dedicated exchange will take place on nature financing\, and on the latest efforts to track urban nature investments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweets by UNEP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt BirdMatt Bird is the Founder\, CEO\, and Editor-in-Chief of ESG News. He brings 25 years of experience in corporate strategy\, media\, fintech\, and communications\, including 15 years specializing in news and journalism. Matt was recognized by the United Nations as #3 of the “Top 10 Most Influential Media Executives for Impact” in 2015 during the launch of the UN SDGs.\nHe has advised the Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative (SSEI)\, UNCTAD\, and the UN\, and hosts event coverage at the World Economic Forum\, ADFW\, Climate Week NYC\, EU Parliament\, COP\, the Vatican\, NASDAQ\, NYSE\, and more. Matt is a founding board member of the Humanity 2.0 Foundation\, a Vatican-based NGO focused on identifying and removing impediments to human flourishing.\nHe previously rang the NASDAQ Closing Bell in honor of his partnership with NASDAQ OMX to launch the world’s first retail investor targeting and newswire monitoring platform with the NASDAQ Financial Services Group. Matt launched ESG News in 2021\, leading coverage of more than 10\,000 news stories as of 2026—and truly loves what he does. \nesgnews.com
URL:https://esgnews.com/event/greener-cities-cooler-planet-healthier-people-unleashing-the-power-of-urban-nature/
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CATEGORIES:Climate,Environmental,United Nations
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