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For their support and encouragement, my love and thanks to Caroline, Jacob, Tessa, Albert, Annie, and Bluebell and Millie. To Daphne and Josephine for their original inspiration. Thanks to my Mum and Dad and my brother Andrew and my sister, Kathryn. Thanks to Pat and Randall. All the people along my career who have given me huge support which led me to this moment. These include Malcolm Horner, Professor George Korfiatis, Alan Swinger, Nicola Suozzo, Paul Craddock, Alistair Kirk, Peter Bishop, Frank Lee, Isabel Dedring, Rit Aggarwala, Jay Carson, Boris Johnson, Sir Simon Milton, Roland Busch, Alex Stuebler, Pedro Miranda, Savvas Verdis, Barbara Humpton, Camille Johnson, and Anthony Casciano.

A special mention to Cathe Reams, who helps us all to smile, and helped me look at the chapters in a particular sequence, and my fabulous niece, Livvie Hackland, who was drafted in to help me link the chapters and whose work ethic and writing are both spectacular.

Special thanks to Amalie Østergaard for her support from the City of Copenhagen and to Jakob Geiger for his support in The Resourceful City.

A big thank you to people I met along the way who inspired me to engage deeper with this topic: Samantha Heath for her tenacity, Mike Bloomberg for his targeted impact, and Al Gore, whose pursuit of detail, kind manner, and relentless ability to focus action in the right places at the right time (and his movie!) were a true inspiration to me and I have attempted to echo this approach in the book.

Annie Chiu, Paul Sayer, Todd Green, Skyler Van Valkenburgh, Amy Odum, Julie Musk, Janane Sivakumar and Hema Krishnamoourthy at Wiley, who calmly and professionally made this happen.

Each of my children had ideas for the cover, which led me to use the image of Fleet Street as it could be reimagined. I want to thank WATG for supplying it ( https://www.watg.com/watg-unveils-innovative-green-block-to-help-make-london-the-worlds-first-national-park-city/). Founded in Honolulu in 1945 by George “Pete” Wimberly, WATG is one of the world’s leading hospitality and destination design firms. Independent to this day and with a profound respect for heritage, its team of strategists, master planners, architects, landscape architects, and interior designers have created more than 400 built projects in 170 countries.

Finally, a big thank you to the 40 authors, each of whom agreed without any persuasion to provide their amazing chapters. You have been, and continue to be, great friends and great human beings. Your dedication to a better environment and a better future has shone through. It has made the book feel hopeful that something even better is ahead of us.

Peter Boyd

The Ambitious City– This chapter presents a case for combining high ambition with high clarity of definition for what we mean by “Net-Zero”, highlighting the need to combine this high ambition with an appreciation and embrace of systems thinking, given the unique, complex, and intertwined nature of each city’s challenges and opportunities.

Peter Boydis Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment, Lecturer in the Practice of Management at the School of Management, and Resident Fellow at the Center for Business and the Environment. Outside Yale, he is a director of REDD.plus, a digital platform to bring UN-registered REDD + forest carbon credits to a new cross-sector world of purchasers who want to achieve Paris-Agreement-compliant carbon neutrality as they transition to net-zero. Working with these and other partners, he is Founder of Time4Good, helping leaders and teams connect purpose to maximum positive impact.

He is former COO of Sir Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room; former Chair of the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office for the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change; and former Project Lead for the B Team’s “Net- Zero” initiative, focused on business encouragement, of an ambitious Paris Agreement at COP21. Following his first job with McKinsey & Co., his private-sector experience included over ten jobs in 12 years at the Virgin Group, including CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa. Peter is originally from Edinburgh, Scotland; studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford; and now lives in Connecticut, where he serves as Chair of Sustainable Westport.

Martin Powell

The Civilized City– This chapter looks at the transformation of cities through time and how we can apply those learnings for a better future. Local solutions will tackle the global climate crisis.

Martin Powellwas Environmental Advisor to the former Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, responsible for policy in water, waste, air quality, energy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and biodiversity. He was also director for the design and delivery of the city’s environmental programmes.

As Managing Director of Cambridge Management & Research, Martin worked for the Energy Saving Trust and the Institute for Sustainability and was Special Advisor to the C40 Cities Group chaired by Michael R. Bloomberg during his time as Mayor of New York. An engineer, he built his career working with organizations to structure their projects and programmes. Martin is also a trustee at Heart of the City, a charity that supports SMEs in London to tackle issues including climate action.

He has held several roles at Siemens including Global Head of Urban Development and is currently Head of Sustainability and Environmental Initiatives at Siemens Inc., with a focus on financing climate action.

Austin Williams

The Emerging City– Some countries don’t need western lectures on sustainable development; they simply need to be allowed to develop. This chapter is about development without prefixes, full stop. This is Malawi’s story.

Austin Williamsis a senior lecturer in Professional Practice in Architecture at Kingston School of Art in London and Honorary Research Fellow at XJTLU University, Suzhou, China. He is director of the Future Cities Project, and the author of China’s Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-cities (Bloomsbury, 2017) and New Chinese Architecture: Twenty Women Building the Future (Thames and Hudson, 2019).