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201. Lifelines VS Deadlines: The Need For Science Based Policy (Part Two)

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

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The Role of Mayors in Regulation

City governments are responsible for either putting in place or delivering a lot of the regulations that are absolutely critical to bringing down emissions as fast as we need to and making resilient places to live. Most city governments are the single biggest purchases of food within their geographical boundary. The transport sector, you know, also so often this is a public transport, as the name suggests, is in the power of the mayor. But even when it's not, if you look at China, the absolute leader on electric buses, but close behind them now, cities in Latin America.

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