Corporate Knights
Winter 2010, Issue 30

Sustainable Cities Ranking

American journalist David Owen argues that New York City is a “utopian environmentalist community.” By living closer together, taking public transit, and sharing green spaces, appropriately planned and governed urban environments offer significant opportunities for reducing our impact on the planet. As Jaime Lerner, former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil says, “Cities are not the problem, they are the solution.”

Our fourth annual Sustainable Cities ranking echoes both Mr. Owen and Mr. Lerner’s sentiments: solutions are abundant in cities across Canada. While federal leaders embarrassed Canadians in Copenhagen, our municipal representatives led (as in Toronto mayor David Miller, who headed up the C40 Climate Leadership Group cities) and inspired (as in Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson’s announcement that his city has the lowest greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions per capita.

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