City Hall ignored 50 years of successful neighbourhood planning. Now it’s feeling the heat.

Background: This research examines 103 climate action plans (CAPs) from 88 C40 cities to explore (a) how measurable indicators are prioritized across thematic dimensions and (b) how city-level context explains variance across planning priorities. Methods: Using UN-Habitat’s City Prosperity Index (CPI) as a guiding framework, we categorize indicators across six dimensions: environmental sustainability, productivity, infrastructure development, quality of life, urban governance, and equity. We use automated text extraction methods and qualitative coding to create a novel data set of indicators from CAPs. Regression analyses assess how city-level variables, including population size, climate risk, and development indices, relate to emphasis on different CPI dimensions. Results: Global cities measure and track a diverse range of metrics across CPI dimensions. Environmental sustainability and infrastructure development are the most commonly tracked indicators, with equity and social inclusion less frequently recorded across cities globally. When measured, equity indicators are most often paired with quality of life and governance outcomes, but these results are heterogeneous across continents. Cities with higher levels of climate risk are more likely to track environmental and infrastructure indicators, and lower quality of life rankings are related to greater CAP emphasis on equity. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that social and economic dimensions of climate action planning, including equity, productivity, quality of life, and governance, remain unevenly integrated across cities globally. Considering heterogeneity in how CAPs measure progress, we suggest that efforts to achieve climate justice require not only scaling up technical solutions but also embedding distributive and procedural equity throughout climate planning approaches.

The company behind Mount Jackson's long-delayed solar project told council members Tuesday night that its own software mislabeled the transmission line it planned to connect to, a mistake that will

All of Columbus is rooting for the Whitecaps

After a disappointing referendum in Maine, campaigners in New York are taking their arguments straight to lawmakers.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

A project in Bavaria is harnessing high temperatures from deep beneath the earth to provide a community with warmth in the winter and to power the local grid in the summer.

Funding for the city's existing buildings retrofit program was nixed in a last-minute amendment brought forward by ABC Councillor Lenny Zhou to Mayor Ken Sim's controversial 2026 budget.

Funding for the city's existing buildings retrofit program was nixed in a last-minute amendment brought forward by ABC Councillor Lenny Zhou to Mayor Ken Sim's controversial 2026 budget.

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

With growing investment in technological options for durable, large-scale carbon removal projects, there is an opportunity for planners to consider what equitable models of carbon removal development and deployment might look like in practice.

CCI polling revealed that even following the vote, twice as many Mainers prefer public ownership of energy resources than private ownership.

Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills.

As global environmental changes disproportionately impact disadvantaged communities, critical research documents subsequent environmental and climate injustices. Communicating these injustices in higher education university classrooms grows increasingly urgent as students are eager to engage with justice issues in professional and personal settings. We identify major challenges for teaching environmental and climate justice within interdisciplinary fields and propose a pedagogical framework based on relational scales of “sense of place” to communicate meaningful and culturally relevant environmental justice topics in university classrooms with multiple dimensions of student diversity. In response to a lack of accessible and tangible pedagogical environmental justice tools across all environmental fields, we highlight practical classroom applications situated at the intersection of individual, community, and place scales. Doing so shows that engaging pedagogical exercises in the sense of place scales can communicate an environmental and climate justice that is not just another academic term, but also an actionable opportunity for students within and beyond classrooms.

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

We currently have a MSc graduate position at the UBC Faculty of Forestry available to start Jan or May 2026, co-supervised by myself and Tahia Devisscher for a project exploring the contributions of u...

An advisory opinion on responsibility for emissions means that Canada could be on the hook for major climate-change-related damages in the years ahead

We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

Sharing a frustration: from a mom, PhD student, and immigrant with an accent in the U.S.—still unsure where to truly call home, yet constantly juggling too many roles within a 24-hour day.

The Handbasket's official recommendations and guide to the race.