The City of Oxford in England is not only following suit after London’s plans to introduce an Ultra-Low Emission Zone in September 2020, the city is ...
Switch to low-carbon economy could be worth £21 billion to Britain
Researchers Stephen Hall of the University of Leeds and Jeffrey Hardy of Imperial College London have studied the the effects of energy policy on the ...
Waste deposit return scheme could save England £35 million
Introducing a deposit return scheme would reduce litter and help tackle plastic pollution in the UK, which is necessary to prevent contamination of the ...
How Hong Kong creatively solves water problems
Hong Kong has too little and too much water at the same time. On the one hand, the city has very few reliable sources of drinking water as there is no ...
St. Louis might become stepping stone for airport privatization
St. Louis is looking into privatizing its airport’s operation. After the former mayor considered doing so as part of the Federal Aviation ...
Urban development through public-private partnerships
Modernizing street lighting is not only beneficial for the environment as it reduces energy consumption, but also for social matters, such as safety, less ...
Nice, Utrecht and Gothenburg are new EU ‘lighthouse’ cities
With the beginning of this month, the new European lighthouse project starts. IRIS, Integrated and Replicable solutions for co-creation in Sustainable ...
An EV charging network for Western US
The first step towards a comprehensive regional electric charging network in the West of the US is taken. Governors of seven states (Colorado, Idaho, ...
A data tool to improve transparency for small cities
California-based software company OpenGov, the startup equivalent of a CDO for a lot of people, is introducing their newest offering, Performance Measures ...
New York City initiates climate action plan
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York has released a comprehensive and ambitious climate action plan for New York. It describes how the city is going to ...
