The city of Pontevedra in Spain has successfully gotten rid of most of its car traffic by implementing certain restrictions and putting the people first ...
UK government backs £6 million shipping research
The UK government is funding green shipping research by backing a £6 million program to test energy saving technologies that could cut fuel consumption ...
China to reuse rainwater with sponge cities
China is adressing the struggle to accommodate rapid urban migration to environmentally sensitive and low-lying areas with a its very ambitious sponge ...
‘UN Urban’, a proposed reform of ‘UN Habitat’ heavily criticised
UN urban, a first-ever international body focused on urban sustainability was proposed in August as a new approach to refor the existing UN body UN-Habitat ...
Höhere Bezuschussung an Kommunen für saubere Luft
Dieselgipfel zwischen Bund, Ländern und Kommunen wurde vereinbart, dass der zwischen Politik und Autobranche Fonds „Nachhaltige Mobilität für die ...
These U.S. cities set the goal to go 100 percent renewable
Going 100 percent renewable with electricity purchases is an ambitious goal, however several US towns, cities and even island have declared their ...
UK could save £7.5 billion with energy efficiency
Experts at the UK Energy Research Centre have calculated that a quarter of current energy use in heating and electricity could be cut by more efficient ...
UN urged to tackle urbanization using climate mechanisms
An umbrella group of urban constituencies known as the General Assembly of Partners (GAP) is pressing the issue of a needed response to rapid urbanization ...
Protestors around the world make cities become bike friendly
In several cities around the world, people are protesting a lack of protection for cyclists. In New York, volunteers from the advocacy group ...
India’s river-linking project about to start
India will soon commence work on an $87 billion scheme to connect nearly 60 rivers, some of the country’s biggest among them, government sources say ...
