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Rome will pay Amsterdam so that the Dutch city will accept part of its garbage. Amsterdam’s energy producer AEB will use the trash to generate heat for local homes and companies.
The City of Amsterdam, led by mayor Femke Halsema, continues with the climate change combat. In order to be more successful, they are getting rid of the fossil fuel natural gas and want to replace it with other heat source such as geothermal energy – the heat from the deep layers of the earth (depth …
It’s the first time a major city has attempted to put doughnut theory into action on a local level
La capitale hollandaise montre l'exemple en prenant une décision symbolique contre le réchauffement climatique.
During its two years, Urban Sharing research team produced many academic and popular science publications. In particular, it delivered two full city reports on urban sharing in Amsterdam and Toronto. From these reports, the readers can learn about the landscape of the sharing economy in each city context. Specific focus is on three sectors: sharing of space, mobility and physical goods. For each sector, we discuss the drivers for and barriers to the sharing economy, the associated sustainability impacts, the potential impacts on incumbent sectors, and the institutional context of sharing. Then, attention is turned to the role of city councils in engaging with the sharing economy and specific governance mechanisms and roles employed by the city councils are described. Insights contained within these reports may support the Cities of Amsterdam, Toronto and other Sharing Cities, as well as urban sharing organisations and third-party actors in their strategic work with the sharing economy for sustainability.
The Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam, Marieke van Doorninck, explains why Amsterdam without a doubt is one of the cities that lead climate adaptation and mitigation efforts. Amsterdam has strong ambition to become climate neutral by 2050, with goal of achieving a 55% carbon emissions reduction by 2030. “Amsterdam is an ambitious and green frontrunner. We …
A new research facility will explore the fair uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in Amsterdam, the municipality announced on Tuesday. Five researchers will be studying the application of artificial intelligence in the fields of education, welfare, the environment, mobility and health in a new lab at Amsterdam Science Park.
The Municipality of Amsterdam presented its green vision for the future earlier this week. The document depicts how it wants to keep the city green in the leadup to 2050 and how to go even further beyond. The vision is still a concept waiting for the feedback and contribution from citizens.
The Dutch capital has set itself an ambitious goal – to get rid of natural gas by 2040, which is a decade earlier than the rest of the Netherlands. This the city wants to achieve for two main reasons – to reduce its carbon emissions and to break free from the energy dependence on the city of Groningen.
The change process is laid out in a strategic document – the Heat Transition Vision, developed in accordance with the requirements of the National Climate Agreement. It depicts the right moment and way for each neighbourhood to switch away from natural gas.
A doughnut cooked up in Oxford will guide Amsterdam out of the economic mess left by the coronavirus pandemic.
While straining to keep citizens safe in the Dutch capital, municipality officials and the British economist Kate Raworth from Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute have also been plotting how the city will rebuild in a post-Covid-19 world.
The conclusion? Out with the global attachment to economic growth and laws of supply and demand, and in with the so-called doughnut model devised by Raworth as a guide to what it means for countries, cities and people to thrive in balance with the planet.
Amsterdam’s city council has announced plans to phase out many types of petrol and diesel vehicle in a bid to clean up air pollution in the city. According to the authorities in the Dutch city, air pollution is responsible for shortening the life expectancy of residents by a year. Air pollution in the Netherlands is higher than required by EU standards; most of it is produced by Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the country’s two largest cities.
Plus la température monte et plus urbanistes, architectes, bâtisseurs et ingénieurs font preuve de créativité. Dans les outils pour détecter les îlots de chaleur, dans la conception de l’habitat ou dans la maîtrise de l’énergie. Quelques exemples, d’Amsterdam à Paris, en passant par Taïwan.
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Amsterdam’s partnership with a tropical forest for everything from park benches to construction projects offers a new model for urban development. The city of Amsterdam uses a lot of wood—for public-housing construction, bridge repair, street furniture and more. But it’s tough to be sure the lumber doesn’t come from fragile ecosystems. Last summer, Amsterdam started working with the stewards of a sustainably managed forest in Suriname to buy traceable hardwoods for use in projects across the city.
By Andrea Oyuela and Samantha Nesrallah (EAT), Louise Hesseldal and Lykke Schmidt (Cities Changing Diabetes) and Jens Aerts, D’Arcy Williams and Jo Jewell (UNICEF) Despite the world’s farmers producing enough food to feed 1.5x the global population, over 820 million people continue to go hungry every day. In parallel, 38 million children under the age […]
C’est une première. Amsterdam a annoncé qu’elle souhaitait interdire les énergies fossiles et le trafic aérien sur les supports publicitaires de la ville. Une décision prise après avoir été mise sous pression par un groupe de 51 associations demandant des publicités sans énergies fossiles. D’autres municipalités et l’État pourraient suivre son exemple.
Amsterdam will be the first Dutch city to have a data centre, capable of warming local homes, the municipality announced on Thursday. The Dutch capital has the goal in its sights for its future data centre, which is currently being built in the port area.
As the Brussels region gears up to reform its economy on the basis of the doughnut model, Amsterdam is already taking the leap with its renewed sustainability strategy. In developing this strategy, the city council engaged the now world-renowned creator of this model, Kate Raworth to tailor the model to Amsterdam’s social and environmental problems. What follows is a conversation with Marieke van Doorninck, the municipal councillor responsible for a circular economy, on what doughnut economics will mean in practice for Amsterdam.
Doughnut Economics is rapidly moving from the fringe to the mainstream. Amsterdam in Holland was recently confirmed as the first ‘Doughnut City’, using the model to underpin its economic development strategy.
How can multi-level and metropolitan cooperation help cities emerge stronger from the Covid-19 pandemic? Here is our expert analysis.
The Amsterdam of the future will be much more sustainable, with 50 % less use of raw materials in a decade’s time and with an entirely circular economy by 2050. But not before it reaches its 2020-2025 goals, which have just been set out and approved by the College of Mayor and Aldermen.
Today is the launch of the Amsterdam City Doughnut, which takes the global concept of the Doughnut and turns it into a tool for transformative action in the city of Amsterdam. It’s also the first public presentation of the holistic approach to ‘downscaling the Doughnut’ that an international team of us have been developing for more than a year. We never imagined that we would be launching it in a context of crisis such as this, but we believe that the need for such a transformative tool could hardly be greater right now, and its use in Amsterdam has the chance to inspire many more places – from neighbourhoods and villages to towns and cities to nations and regions – to take such a holistic approach as they begin to reimagine and remake their own futures.
In 2017, a bicycle sharing system entered Amsterdam with two more services following quickly. Use figures were initially low which is thought to be due to the high level of bicycle ownership. In addition, parking spaces for shared bicycles were adding to the pressure on public space from parked bicycles - which was already nearing capacity. The city’s response was to regulate access to public space for bicycle sharing providers by removing them.
Amsterdam's urban living lab Knowledge Mile is looking for city-makers with green and sustainable ideas to help create a Knowledge Mile Park. The best idea wins up to €2,500!
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