The Danish foundation Realdania have asked the Scandinavian think-tank Monday Morning to create the Copenhagen Agenda for Sustainable Cities initiative, supported by the Danish Minister of the Environment.

Monday Morning asked 50 of the world’s most influential urban experts to share their thoughts about the key challenges facing urban leaders and to suggest a way forward. Representing all parts of the world and a wide range of disciplines, these experts agree that to make our cities sustainable, we need a radical change of mindset, new planning strategies and new methods of governance to support development and foster a new generation of urban leadership. The result of their considerations is to be found within 10 principles for sustainable urban governance presented in one publication.

To download the document, click here.

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The interesting work of the American Post Carbon Institute is being translated at the urban level. This is being realised in the Post Carbon Cities Initiative.

Central to this approach is the publishing of the Post Carbon Cities guidebook. Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty is a guidebook on peak oil and global warming for people who work with and for local governments in the United States and Canada. It provides a sober look at how these phenomena are quickly creating new uncertainties and vulnerabilities for cities of all sizes, and explains what local decision-makers can do to address these challenges.

To read is also the blog run by the Post Carbon Cities Team.