by openyokohama | Jul 23, 2020 | News
In one of its largest city-wide projects ever, Yokohama City has taken the initiative to replace all power consumed within city-owned facilities with renewable energy by 2050 as part of its new goal: “Zero Carbon Yokohama.” As the first step towards this goal,...
by openyokohama | Jun 22, 2020 | News
The Office of the City of Yokohama Rep. to the Americas participated as the representative of Yokohama city in the third convening of the SDG Leadership Cities Network hosted for the first time virtually by Brookings Institution from June 16th to 18th. The main topic...
by openyokohama | Dec 24, 2019 | News
In November 2019, the second convening of the SDGs Leadership Cities meeting hosted by the Brookings Institute was held in Mexico City, Mexico. Toshikazu Yazawa, Director of Office of the City of Yokohama Representative to the Americas, represented Yokohama City at...
by openyokohama | Oct 2, 2019 | News
The UN Climate Change Summit, SDG Summit, and other related events were held in New York surrounding the UN General Assembly in late September. During the “Summits Week 2019,” Yokohama City participated as a member of Japan Climate Initiative (JCI), a network composed...
by openyokohama | Jul 15, 2019 | News
The first SDGs Leadership Cities Gathering was a convening of senior government officials from 14 vanguard cities in the field of ocalizing the SDGs, and it was held from April 3-6 at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Italy hosted by the Brookings Institution....
