Difficult to imagine a more timely moment for us to convene this particular forum. Met,e years since we last we have seen examples of something that is extremely an extraordinary. Cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing cities look to each other. Mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an nations, theng paris climate accord. Climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordinations emerging and wonderfullycoming ordinary. Why . Urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. It is the most dynamic force. 500 cities around the world have a population of more than one million people. That statistic it does not capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0 one third of the lived in urban ar
Difficult to imagine a more timely moment for us to convene this particular forum. Met,e years since we last we have seen examples of something that is extremely an extraordinary. Cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing cities look to each other. Mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an nations, theng paris climate accord. Climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordinations emerging and wonderfullycoming ordinary. Why . Urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. It is the most dynamic force. 500 cities around the world have a population of more than one million people. That statistic it does not capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0 one third of the lived in urban ar
Examples of something that is extraordinary. Cities are becoming important as players on the national stage, bypassing National Governments to look to each other for solutions to global problems. In the last week alone, mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an agreement among nations, the paris climate accord. Yet, Climate Change is not an outlier in citytocity coordination. Quite the opposite. It is happening as well on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security, governance, and human rights, and so many other Critical Issues that face our world today. In fact, extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct citytocity coordinations emerging and maturing, becoming wonderfully ordinary. Why . Why is this happening . The answer is that urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. Is undoubtedly it is undoubtedly the most dynamic force. More than 500 cities around th
Theelcome to chicago and 2017 form on Global Cities. Difficult to imagine a more timely moment for us to convene this particular forum. Met,e years since we last we have seen examples of something that is extremely an extraordinary. Cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing cities look to each other. Mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an nations, theng paris climate accord. Climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordinations emerging and wonderfullycoming ordinary. Why . Urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. It is the most dynamic force. 500 cities around the world have a population of more than one million people. That statistic it does not capture the staggering pace at which cities a
We are just about to change the month and we also about to change the weather. Quite a variety at the moment. We will see very much more of this over the coming days. This is the scene in south wales. This the scene in the western side of scotland, what a contrast. Through the rest of the evening, the cloud and rain will push away and skies will stay clear in scotland. A widespread frost with freezing fog developing. Quite a contrast to the temperatures. The eastern side of scotla nd temperatures. The eastern side of scotland could be 10. Watch out for that freezing fog which could linger in the central belt all day but a bit of brightness and in the east of the pennines as well. Increasingly dank and murky in northern ireland, north west of england, wales, the midlands and the south west but at least it gets to 12. Cooler on that site but we will eventually all get milder and cloudier and wetter and windier. 0h milder and cloudier and wetter and windier. Oh dear. Hello. This is bbc ne