Innovate4Cities is the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) city-focused research and innovation initiative addressing critical data, innovation, and technology gaps to enable cities to take accelerated and ambitious climate action. The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Centre for Cities is a key knowledge partner helping to build the roadmap that underpins I4C – the Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science (GRAA).
Since 2019, the Melbourne Centre for Cities has been contributing a range of research, program and governance services for GCoM’s Innovate4Cities Initiative – including multi-year research strategies, marketplaces, conferences and knowledge products.
Some additional related projects on cities and climate change include: the Centre’s Award Winning ClimateTalks podcast (with Melbourne Climate Futures), participation on the advisory board for the Journal for City Climate Policy and Economy, the Innovate4Cities Book, contributions to the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities and the Climate Innovation Readiness Navigator.
Learn more about Innovate4Cities here on the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy website.
New Book: A Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science
A Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science: The Innovate4Cities Initiative (Palgrave Macmillan Singapore) is a new open access book.
Edited by Cathy Oke, Benjamin Jance IV, Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos, Debra C. Roberts, Nicola Tollin, Andrew Irvin and Marita Doak, it explores the dynamic interface of urban practice, transformation, and cities and climate change science.
Project Team
Ms Marita Doak
Project partners
Outputs
Oke, Cathy (ed); Doak, Marita (ed); Irvin, Andrew (ed) (2024): 2024 Innovate4Cities Conference Student Writing Group Reflections. Report.
Irvin, Andrew; Oke, Cathy; Khan, Samia; Jance, Benjamin IV; Ranalder, Lea; Barth, Bernhard; et al. (2024): Next-Generation City Climate Action: Findings from the 2024 Innovate4Cities Conference and Update to the Global Research and Action Agenda for Cities and Climate Change Science (GRAA). The University of Melbourne. Report.
Jance, B. (ed), Irvin, A. (ed) and Oke, C. (ed), Assalini, S., Barth, B., Deacon, A., Jones, A., Jones-Langley, J., Khan, S., Mariani, P., Melica, G., Oussidhoum, F., Ranalder, L., Parry, L., Salehi, P., & Tacconi, M. Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (2024): Shared Spaces for Urban Innovation: Insights and outcomes from Innovate4Cities Marketplaces. Report.
Walsh, B., Greenwalt, J. Oke, C., Hadfield, P., Dickey, A., Craig, Marlies; et al. (2022): Findings from Innovate4Cities 2021 and Update to the Global Research and Action Agenda. University of Melbourne. Report.
Oke C., Walsh B., Assarkhaniki Z., Jance B., Deacon A., & Lundberg K. (2022) The city research and innovation agenda: prioritizing knowledge gaps and policy processes to accelerate city climate action. J City Clim Pol Econ 1(1):94–110.
Oke, C. Walsh, B., Jance, B., Hadfield, P. Palermo, V., Salehi, P. et al. (eds) (2022): City Research and Innovation Agenda, update. University of Melbourne. Report.
Student Energy & Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne (2021): Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy Youth Policy Innovation Team: Process Outcomes and Recommendations for Global Regions. [Online resource]
Dickey, A. (ed.), Oke, C. (ed.), et al. (2021). Innovate4Cities Conference 2021: Student-Led Final Report. Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne. [Online resource]
Dickey, A. (ed.), Oke, C. (ed.), et al. (2021). COP26 Insights from the Innovate4Cities Conference 2021: Student-Led Briefing Report. Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne. [Online resource]
Dickey, A., Hadfield, P., Oke, C., Verbeeck, J. (2021). Opportunities for coordinating multi-level climate action: an analysis of city climate action and national urban engagement. Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne. [Online resource]
Hadfield, P., Oke, C., & Verbeeck, J. (2021). Regional Research and Innovation for City Climate Action: Global Synthesis Report. Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne. [Online resource]
Hunter N., Walsh B., Delgado Ramos G.C., Greenwalt J., Roberts D., Oke C., Nielsen D., & Slotow R., (2023). Cities and climate change science after Edmonton: Knowledge, people, and organisations' influence and outreach, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 6, 100231. [Online resource]
Lynch, A., Oke, C., & Leavesley, A. (2021). State of play: Local governments and city networks accelerating climate action in Australia. ICLEI Oceania.