Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation World Habitat Day Opening Ceremony
National Building Museum, Washington, DC
Around the world, innovation flourishes. Durban, South Africa, incorporates ongoing climate change assessments, adaptation, and mitigation into long-term city planning. Stockholm, Dublin, Singapore, and Brisbane are developing smart transportation systems – including congestion pricing – that reduce traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. In Shanghai, the world’s first commercial magnetic levitation train shuttles passengers from the city’s edge to its state-of-the-art airport – at 287 miles an hour – in eight minutes.
But, together, we must do more – and that means taking on sometimes controversial questions...