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Give cities a voice at UN to tackle climate change – Sennett

By 2019-10-18T06:00:00

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Cities should be given a voice at the United Nations because they tend to be more progressive than the nations that govern them, the urbanist Richard Sennett has said.

The move would speed up agreement on action to tackle urgent global issues like climate change, he argued at the Royal Academy this week.

Sennett, who currently leads a project for the UN on urban climate change, said it was time to reform the 75-year-old organisation.

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