Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the launch of the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, an innovation competition that will identify and accelerate the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of Biden’s latest picks, Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary, is especially encouraging. The role does not have the highest profile in the cabinet, but it is one of the most important economic jobs in Washington. The Commerce Department exerts great influence across an array of federal economic policies, with a broad reach that exceeds even that of Treasury.

Hospitals, schools and businesses across London will be able monitor levels of air pollution in their local area, as the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, launches a new network of sensors at key locations as part of his Breathe London air quality monitoring project.

President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to rejoin the Paris climate agreement sends an important signal to the world about U.S. leadership. But the action will merely take us back to four years ago. To push us forward, on his first day in office, President Biden should bring together a group of G-20 leaders to join the U.S. in endorsing a mandatory standard for global businesses to measure and report the risks they face from climate change.

In the five years since the signing of the historic Paris Climate Agreement, we’ve made some encouraging progress in the fight against climate change – including here in the United States, thanks to a strong coalition of cities, states, and businesses who remained committed to keeping us on track despite the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw.

More than 30 of the nation’s leaders and innovators in infectious disease, public health, government, and nonprofit advocacy gathered for the virtual Bloomberg American Health Summit to share their perspectives on what it will take for the United States to fully recover from the pandemic and build a healthier future.

Bloomberg Philanthropies and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) announced a new partnership to support mayors across the country as they take on the immense challenge of increasing understanding of and access to the COVID-19 vaccines for their residents.

I had the good fortune to work with Jim Wolfensohn at Salomon Brothers – we left together in 1981, which turned out to be as lucky for him as it was for me.

David Dinkins’s groundbreaking mayoral victory in 1989 helped New York City turn an important corner in racial equality.

Having lost the election decisively — by 74 votes in the Electoral College, and by 6 million and counting overall — he has availed himself of every imaginable scheme to undermine the vote’s legitimacy and obscure what was plainly a fair and square victory for his opponent, President-elect Joe Biden.