{"id":12459,"date":"2021-05-06T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T10:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:28","slug":"5-cities-leading-us-to-a-new-renewable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/05\/06\/5-cities-leading-us-to-a-new-renewable-future\/","title":{"rendered":"5 cities leading us to a new renewable future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A billion people lived in a city with a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ren21.net\/reports\/cities-global-status-report\/\">renewable energy target or policy in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the world, national and local governments are waking up to the potential of renewables as a way to create clean, liveable cities.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/11\/global-continent-urban-population-urbanisation-percent\/#:~:text=Overall%2C%20more%20people%20in%20the,of%20less%20than%20500%2C000%20inhabitants.\">More than half of the world&#8217;s population lives in a city<\/a>, and cities contribute around&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/climate-action\/momentum-for-change\/activity-database\/momentum-for-change-climate-smart-cities\">three-quarters of the carbon dioxide emissions<\/a>&nbsp;from global final energy use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As urbanization continues apace, cities have an important role to play in helping curb greenhouse gas emissions and achieve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/the-paris-agreement\">Paris climate agreement<\/a>\u00a0objectives to limit global warming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/5-cities-leading-us-renewable-future\">Read more <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ren21.net\/reports\/cities-global-status-report\/\">new report, REN21<\/a>, a global body of scientists, governments, NGOs and industry, has highlighted some cities leading the way. Here are five of the most effective and innovative projects from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A billion people lived in a city with a&nbsp;renewable energy target or policy in 2020. Around the world, national and local governments are waking up to the potential of renewables&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}