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Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

From Sustainable Development Solutions Network:

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change call for deep transformations in every country that require complementary actions by governments, civil society, science, and business. While significant progress is being made on some goals, no country is currently on track towards achieving all SDGs.

Report & Dashboard: "Climate Opportunity: More Jobs, Better Health; Liveable Cities"

The economic and public health benefits of urban climate policies

White Paper: ALIGNMENT BETWEEN STAR AND THE SDGS

UNSSC Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development

With the support from the Federal Government of Germany, the United Nations System Staff College has opened the Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development in Bonn to equip the UN and its partners with a vehicle to deliver on the learning agenda pertaining to Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

SDG Academy now online

SDSN’s online education initiative SDSNedu is now the

Routledge Sustainability Hub

Routledge Sustainability evolved from and incorporates the former Earthscan imprint and is a leading global publisher in Environment and Sustainability studies.

An innovative knowledge centre for the global sustainability community, this Hub offers a wide range of resources about many facets of sustainability. It includes resources by topic, sample chapters from textbooks, and a sustainability community section.

Sustainable Cities MOOC

With the Paris Climate Talks putting cities top of the agenda for climate action, check out a new MOOC on Sustainable Cities! Sign up today for a free 5 week course on the latest knowledge on cities, climate and sustainability! https://www.coursera.org/learn/gte-sustainable-cities

The green dividend of urban biking? Evidence of improved community and sustainable development

Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, and its publisher Taylor & Francis, have partnered with Pando to feature select article abstracts. Click here to find links to the full article.

Victoria Transport Policy Institute

The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transportation problems. The VTPI website (http://www.vtpi.org ) has many excellent resources addressing a wide range of transport planning and policy issues. VTPI also provides consulting services.

How to build light rail in our cities without emptying the public purse

"Some might object to our public transport being in private hands, but if we manage it well, this kind of partnership with private expertise can deliver beautiful cities as well as beautiful trains." Peter Newman makes the case in this throught-provoking piece.

Quality of Life, (e)Quality of Place

Rail transit anchors downtowns and neighborhoods in communities throughout Chicago’s northern suburbs and across the region, but many of these communities are falling behind in creating mixed-income transit-oriented development. This guidebook, "Quality of Life, (e)Quality of Place, Growing Local Economies through Equitable Transit-Oriented Development", from the NGO Open Communities and the Center for Neighborhood Technology, offers case studies, policy recommendations, and public participation tools to help suburbs build affordable, accessible housing around transit.

The $90 trillion plan to redesign every city on Earth

From Business Insider via CityScope:

The Dutch Cycling Embassy

The Dutch Cycling Embassy is a public private network. The Embassy operates in the field of urban planning and mobility.

Transformative Tools - global registry of urban sustainability rating tools

A gobal registry of urban sustainability rating tools curated to increase awareness of tools and promote the outcomes they foster: www.transformativetools.org

Greening the Economy - A Massive Open Online Course

How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course addresses sustainability, climate change and how to combine economic development with a healthy environment.

Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in Australia released

As a part of the global DDPP, ClimateWorks Australia and Australia National University has published Pathways to Deep Decarbonisation in 2050: How Australia can prosper in a low carbon world (PDF),

The Bike-sharing World Map

The Bike-sharing World Map shows 3rd generation (high-tech), 3rd+ generation and mixed 3rd generation/manned bike-sharing services around the Worl

Free Access to all past Local Environment issues in September

Throughout September, free access is available to all content published from 1996 to 2013 in Local Environment for 14 days as par

Press Kit for Tipping Point Action Campaign (Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges)

Press Kit for Tipping Point Action Campaign

Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges

New from cpcsc.info---Planetary Distress Signal Campaign and 1000 Community Visioning Initiatives Campaign

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research for critical challenge alerts, and support for collaborative problem solving initiatives which seek to ma

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