ICLEI Plots New Course For External Financing For Nature-Based Smart City Solutions

Essentially, ICLEI is promoting Public-Private Partnerships to finance green projects and development of Smart Cities. The fear factor to do so is a) population is still exploding and b) most people are moving to cities. Like climate change, both are wildly exaggerated.  ⁃ TN EditorThe United Nations World Cities Report 2016, Urbanization and Development: Emerging Futures, predicts that by 2030 two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in cities. It further forecasts t