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The Climate City


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and plan for it.

      Pete Daw is director of Global Urban Futures, advising public and private organizations on climate change and sustainability. He recently supported the London Waste and Recycling Board in developing the case for their five-year business plan focused on driving down consumption-based emissions and making the London circular economy. He is now on assignment with the Greater London Authority, heading the climate change mitigation and adaptation teams.

      Previously Pete worked in London government for 12 years. He was Policy & Programmes Manager for Climate Change Mitigation & Energy for the Greater London Authority between 2008 and 2013, where he led the development of the city’s Climate Change Mitigation & Energy Strategy and its Air Quality Strategy. Prior to that he was Waste Policy manager at the London Development Agency, where he designed the concept and secured £24 million of funding for a waste infrastructure fund.

       Julia Thayne DeMordaunt

      The Agile City (Part I) – The chapter first takes a look back and then defines a path forward for how cities, people, and technology come together to deliver transportation systems that offer what people need when they need it.

      An expert at the leading edge of systemic change for transportation and infrastructure policy, Julia Thayne DeMordaunt helps governments, private companies, and NGOs translate ambitious visions into actionable plans that benefit the communities they impact. Julia is Principal of Urban Transformation at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Prior to this Julia developed mobility innovation programmes for the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, she worked as director of Urban Development at Siemens, consulting on initiatives for 35 cities across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. She is also founder and board member of the public–private innovation hub Urban Movement Labs, and an educator at USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Her work has been featured in publications including Fast Company, The Washington Post, CityLab, Vox, Bloomberg, Governing Magazine Quartz, Tech Crunch, and Curbed.

       Jonathan Laski

      The Agile City (Part II) – What is a city without the ability of citizens to move around safely, inexpensively, accessibly, and without fear of sickness from pollution?

      Jonathan Laski is a sustainability professional and lawyer based in Toronto, Canada. His professional career began in the corporate/commercial practice group of a large independent law firm in Toronto, following which Jonathan transitioned to a career in sustainability. He has directed innovative city-level research and impact programmes through roles with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, World Green Building Council, and Waterfront Toronto. Highlights include managing the first of C40’s peer-to-peer city networks on private sector building energy efficiency in 2012–2013 and launching WorldGBC’s Advancing Net-Zero global initiative.

       Olivia Nielsen

      The Habitable City (Part I) – The chapter explores how cities can address one of their biggest challenges: housing a growing urban population in an affordable, sustainable, and climate-resilient way.

      Olivia Nielsen is an Associate Principal at Miyamoto International, a global structural engineering and disaster-risk reduction firm, where she focuses on making housing affordable, sustainable, and resilient for all. From post-disaster Haiti to Papua New Guinea, she has developed and worked on critical housing programmes in over 35 countries for the World Bank, USAID, and Habitat for Humanity, among others. She has over a decade of experience in housing policy, finance, housing public–private partnerships, post-disaster reconstruction, and green construction. Prior to joining Miyamoto, Olivia was a principal at the Affordable Housing Institute, where she developed housing policy and finance solutions in Haiti, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the South Pacific for the World Bank and USAID. Olivia also managed CEMEX’s housing and infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, where she focused on leading the cement company’s reconstruction efforts after the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Olivia is originally from Paris, France, has a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from McGill University, a Master’s in Sustainable Management from the United Nations Mandated University, and an Executive Master’s in Management from the London School of Economics. Through her work, she seeks to ensure that all families around the world have access to affordable, sustainable, and resilient homes.

       Nicky Gavron and Alex Denvir

      The Habitable City (Part II) – We must design and build our future housing in a way that promotes density over sprawl and locks away carbon with greener, cleaner, and more circular methods.

      Leading London’s response to climate change, Nicky introduced policies and programmes to reduce CO2 emissions across energy, water, waste, transport, and sustainable design and construction. Her initiatives include establishing the London Climate Change Agency and C40 Cities. She firmly believes that cities working collaboratively are pivotal in the battle against climate change. Nicky is internationally recognized for her work on urban planning and the environment and has and continues to advise cities and city networks. Her advisory roles have included Chief Project Advisor to the London School of Economics (LSE) Stern Cities Programme on the economics of green cities, a member of the Rotterdam International Advisory Board, and honorary adviser to the Joint US China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE). Nicky has many passions including furthering the nature/climate nexus and its relationship to accelerating carbon-free construction – the subject of her chapter.

      Alex