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How C40 Cities are bringing cities and data together to build a climate-safe future

Thursday, January 26


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Brendan Shane

About the Speaker

Brendan Shane has worked with C40 for 2.5 years as Regional Director for North America, coordinating engagement with the 15 member cities in the United States and Canada. In this role, he supports C40 Cities in the US and Canada in their climate action and sustainability planning, measurement, and implementation and facilitates inter-city, regional, and global collaboration. In December, he will shift to direct coordination of C40's Deadline 2020 Programme to facilitate adoption by all C40 cities of Paris-compatible, 1.5ºC climate action plans by 2020. Prior to joining C40, Brendan served as Chief of Policy and Sustainability for the District Department of the Environment in Washington, DC, where he worked across District Government and with private sector stakeholders to develop and implement the city’s first comprehensive sustainability plan. Brendan has a B.A. in Government from Franklin & Marshall College, an M.S. in Geology from the University of Maryland at College Park and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.


Eric Ast

About the Speaker

Ast manages data and analytics at C40 Cities, and is co-author of research including Climate Action in Megacities and Powering Climate Action: Cities as Global Changemakers. Eric is responsible for performing analysis on urban sustainability and developing common global metrics for measuring the action and impact the world’s megacities are having on climate change. Prior to joining C40, Eric was a Managing Energy Analyst for Bright Power in New York City, where he consulted owners of affordable multifamily housing on portfolio energy and water efficiency strategies, and helped local property owners comply with the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan. Eric holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering and Economics from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. in Sustainable Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
 

About the Talk

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, founded in 2005, is a growing network of 91 of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing cities for increasing climate risks. The talk and discussion will focus on how C40 is leveraging political leadership, city expertise, data standards and technical assistance to empower member cities to meet the highest ambition of the Paris Agreement--limiting global temperature increases to 1.5ºC. C40 staff are very interested to learn more about NASA climate and carbon monitoring which can be applied to U.S. and global cities.

 


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