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This week is London Climate Action Week, and thousands of attendees — including Mike, Earthshot Prize Finalists, climate innovators, and others — are in the city to share ideas and solutions for accelerating climate progress. This week also marks the one-year anniversary of Breathe Cities, which Mike and London Mayor Sadiq Khan launched in 2023. The city continues to explore creative climate solutions, including cutting pollution from buildings, which account for nearly three-quarters of London's emissions. Our latest Building the Future video explores how Bloomberg Associates, our pro bono consultancy that helps city leaders tackle big challenges, is working with businesses in London to clean the air and cut climate emissions through the Mayor's Business Climate Challenge. By providing innovative support like energy audits, data dashboards, and more, they're helping companies reduce energy consumption and slash emissions that pollute the local air and drive global climate change.

One of the most persistent lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is learning loss. Today, years after the end of most remote schooling, millions of students are still underperforming academically and risk falling permanently behind. The good news is that there are effective methods to address learning loss, and we have the data to prove it. A new study tracking results for more than 35,000 students in our Summer Boost program showed major gains in reading and math performance across demographics and education levels. Participating students were able to erase multiple weeks of learning loss through summer courses and enrichment activities. Watch our latest Summer Boost video to hear from teachers, students, parents, and others about how the program is helping kids get back on track.

As Paris prepares to welcome more than 15 million people for the Summer Olympic games, we're celebrating one of the city's other great offerings to visitors: its arts and culture. Bloomberg Connects, our free mobile app, has added digital guides to 39 world-class French cultural institutions, most of them based in Paris. The 39 French institutions join more than 450 cultural institutions from 24 countries with digital guides already on Bloomberg Connects. If you're heading to Paris this summer for the games, you can use the Bloomberg Connects guides to enhance in-person visits to museums and more while you're there. And if you'd rather avoid the crowds, the free mobile app lets you access photos, videos, audio, and more from great cultural venues, wherever you are.

Ensuring access to clean water for a growing population. Making investments to effectively improve equity in city services. Reducing homelessness and crime. These are just a few ways that cities are using data and evidence to improve lives for their residents. To recognize those efforts, nine cities in the U.S. and Latin America were awarded the What Works Cities certification for excellence in data use. Watch our short reel to see which cities earned the prestigious distinction, and how they're using data to tackle urgent challenges. You can also learn more about the Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Certification program and the 80-plus cities that have now earned this achievement for using data to better outcomes for their communities.

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