Regenerative Cultures – Regenerative Cities | Editorial

Abstract

Annual CO2 emissions are now 45% higher than they were at the dawn of the millennium and 500% higher than the 1950s. Carbon emissions from the richest 1% more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity. Scientists warn of “untold human suffering” without deep and lasting shifts in our ways of life. Our lifestyles, our homes and our cities, are contributing to our very own extinction. Across the world, activists, policy makers, scientists, along with an ever-increasing number of institutions, from the UN to local governments, call for urgent action to reverse an ever worsening planetary environmental crisis whose effects are disproportionately felt in the Global South.

Keywords

• regenerative cities
• regenerative cultures
• editorial