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State of the Global Climate 2024

Key climate change indicators again reach record levels

Known Foreign Contribution Laws

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Digital Citymakers' Summit 2025: Panel Discussion and Network Sessions

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Holistic Eco-Villages for Flood Rehabilitation

A sustainable model for disaster recovery and development

Digital Citymakers' Summit 2025

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Detroit Youth Violence Prevention Strategy
Detroit, United States

Detroit Youth Violence Prevention Strategy

The Youth Violence Prevention plan brought together stakeholders to draft a multi-faceted strategy.
SynAthina: a social innovation platform
Athens, Greece

SynAthina: a social innovation platform

Citizens, policy-makers and private sector representatives come together to build a collaborative, grassroots vision for change in Athens.
Pop-up bike lanes
Berlin, Germany

Pop-up bike lanes

Temporary bicycle infrastructure pops up in Berlin
Growth of small scale (peri) urban agriculture in Ghent, Belgium
Ghent, Belgium

Growth of small scale (peri) urban agriculture in Ghent, Belgium

Ghent has identified a demand for urban agriculture to occur within the city region to provide better transparency in the food system
Seoul Transport Operation and Information Service (TOPIS)
Seoul , South Korea

Seoul Transport Operation and Information Service (TOPIS)

TOPIS gathers and processes real-time information to enable the city to efficiently manage road and subway train traffic.
Educational Parks for Youth
Antioquia (Departement), Colombia

Educational Parks for Youth

Building on a widely-hailed experiment in Medellin, the entire surrounding province of Antioquia has set up a network of 80 educational parks designed to supplement traditional education with programs to honor young peoples' inherent skills and citizenship potentials.

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Montevideo, Uruguay

NELSON Fernandez

Individual | International Relations
Sayel Cortes
Utrecht, Netherlands

Sayel Cortes

Individual | PhD Candidate
Rome, Italy

BRANNI ANTONIETTA

Individual | Project manager
Anne Schmidt
Berlin, Germany

Anne Schmidt

Individual | Architect, urban designer, researcher
Amman, Jordan

Nisreen Alaraj

Individual | Local development Expert
Sikho Msomi
Durban, South Africa

Sikho Msomi

Individual | Director