Greening the world economy through cities

Raquel Moreno-Peñaranda, Ping Jiang, Puspita Dirgahayani, Magali Dreyfus, Aki Suwa, Christopher Doll, Erin Kennedy

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Abstract

Besides comprising a majority of the world’s population, cities concentrate disproportional amounts of the world’s economy and decision-making power. Further, though urban areas cover only around two percent of the Earth’s surface, they consume 75 percent of its resources. Yet as a hub for social and political movements and centres of technological and institutional knowledge and innovation, cities can be a powerful catalyst of greener economies.
Original languageEnglish
Specialist publicationOurWorld 2.0 United Nations University
Publication statusPublished - 2013 Jan 30
Externally publishedYes

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Social Work

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