Sustainable cities is a very contradictory term considering they consume 80% of global energy and are responsible for 70% of greenhouse gas emissions. But this is all the more reason we need to switch to making our cities more sustainable. It is also predicted that by 2050 as much as 70% of the global population will live in cities. This large amount of people will generate huge amounts of waste and pollution and threaten the biodiversity of our cities. This is why we need to make the shift toward compact, low-carbon, resilient cities. There are some organizations already doing this, for example the program UrbanShift. This program supports 23 cities in 9 countries and is working on implementing a low-carbon infrastructure, sustainable waste management and nature-based solutions for urban sustainability. We need more people to take action like this because as the population grows there will be more people living in Cities and we will need to accommodate them while still taking a sustainable approach. To do this we need to create more sustainable transportation and lower our use of fossil fuels in general. We also need to create sustainable living spaces in order to lower our greenhouse gas emissions. This will be a hard process but I believe if we stay committed we will be able to succeed in making cities sustainable.

Works Cited
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The Global Goals. Sustainable Cities and Communities. The Global Goals, https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/11-su … mmunities/.
UN environment programme. Sustainable Cities. https://www.unep.org/regions/asia-and-p … ble-cities.