FINDINGS FROM INNOVATE4CITIES 2021 AND UPDATE TO THE GLOBAL RESEARCH AND ACTION

In the months following the conference, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) launched the Innovate4Cities initiative to support and expand the research and action called for within the 2018 Cities and Climate Change Science conference’s GRAA. [...] The Innovate4Cities 2021 conference was an important stocktaking of progress in the production of evidence- based reports and peer-reviewed publications on cities and climate change, and emerging research gaps which have come about since the Cities and Climate Change Science conference, and which can contribute to the preparation of the AR7 Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. [...] By the year 2050, it is projected In the months following the conference, the Global that more than two-thirds of the population will live in Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) these places and much of the population growth over launched the Innovate4Cities initiative to support and the next 30 years will occur in cities (predominantly expand the research and action called for within. [...] The primary output of this conference which has occurred since the 2018 Cities and Climate was the Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities Change Science conference, and which could be and Climate Change Science (GRAA)(World Climate 9 assessed during the preparation of the 7th assessment The 2018 Cities and Climate Change Science cycle’s Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. [...] and impacts for cities in the present and near-term Throughout the conference, it was recognized that and focused on the need for the implementation of cities are influential because of the number of people solutions which facilitate climate change mitigation that live and congregate there, the concentration of 12 infrastructure and businesses, and the intangible world partnership, participation,.