Building Sustainable Cities

The Agenda with Steve Paikin

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The 11th goal of the 17 United Nations sustainable development objectives is to build sustainable cities and communities. What role does this have in city building? What are the major challenges to achieving it? And what exactly does a sustainable city look like? The Agenda welcomes Canadian mayors to discuss SDG #11 and the part cities play in solving climate change.
Episode:
Building Sustainable Cities; Reversing Global Warming
Aired:
Apr 23, 2018
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