Adam Fishman Lynn Wagner explains on the International Institute for Environment and Development SDG Knowledge Hub website about blockchain’s potential for contributing to SDG implementation. This week Energycities also announced a new report on blockchain and the energy transition. It is available here. Policy Brief: SDG Knowledge Weekly: Blockchain in Practice This week’s brief…
Community-led innovation has experienced significant growth and support in the past few years. Social Innovation Community (SIC) reflects this in its community-led innovation network – a group of people across Europe dedicated to developing and disseminating community-led innovation tools, methods and ideas.
Monica Nagore and Rebecca Watterson from the Young Foundation are coordinating the community-led innovation network. In this article, Rebecca shares some insights into how we can support communities to build and tell their own stories, and why this is crucial to community-led innovation.
Blockchain, the peer-to-peer (P2P) network software underlying the Bitcoin “cryptocurrency,” and a growing roster of variants are now being assessed as a means of exchanging and distributing the emissions-free electricity produced by solar, wind and other environmentally friendly forms of renewable energy generation assets much more efficiently and at much lower cost. That’s particularly valuable as solar energy generation and battery-based energy storage systems (BESS) capacity continue to reach new heights and costs fall to, and in a growing number of instances below, the level of competing fossil fuel power generation worldwide.
Pris dans des problématiques de développement durable, de lutte contre le changement climatique, d’aménagement pour le bien-être des habitants, certaines villes sont aujourd’hui des lieux propices pour le redéveloppement de la nature. Le territoire de Lyon, particulièrement engagé dans ces thématiques, s’appuie sur une diversité d’initiatives citoyennes, qui ramènent la nature au centre de la ville, par des pratiques de compostages, mais aussi de jardinage collectif. Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude portant sur ces initiatives et la manière dont elles impactent le territoire urbain, grâce à la nature. Ce terrain est l’occasion de qualifier la notion de capital environnemental, et notamment la manière dont il est produit sur ce territoire.
"This study highlights the interdependence of national policy choices beyond borders. We hope that it will contribute towards facilitating a transparent and open dialogue between the actors of the two countries, encourage the development of a shared understanding of the energy transition, and help reach the necessary compromises for a deeper integration of the European energy system." Patrick Graichen (Director, Agora Energiewende) and Michel Colombier (Scientific Director, IDDRI)
Community-led innovation has experienced significant growth and support in the past few years, as reflected in the Social Innovation Community (SIC) community-led innovation network – a group of people across Europe dedicated to developing and disseminating community-led innovation tools, methods and ideas. Monica Nagore and Rebecca Watterson from The Young Foundation are coordinating the community-led innovation network. In this article, Rebecca shares some insights into how we can support communities to build and tell their own stories, and why this is crucial to community-led innovation.
Cette convention vise à renforcer la coopération entre les universités, les villes et les intercommunalités dans différents domaines comme les schémas locaux de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, l’innovation, l’implantation et l’ancrage territorial des universités. Plus globalement, les territoires et les universités, acteurs autonomes, veulent mettre en évidence toutes les valorisations réciproques qui peuvent être tirées des coopérations construites entre les collectivités du bloc local et les universités.
Estonian green energy platform WePower has signed a number of partnerships that it claims will enable full cycle, blockchain-based energy trading across the country, encompassing production, transmission and consumption. WePower last month raised USD 40 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) for its /WPR token. The company said, in a press release, that its new partnerships, with electricity and gas retailers Elering AS and 220Energia, together with Estonian wind power technology company Eleon, will allow the nationwide adoption of a blockchain-based green trading ecosystem and demonstrates the importance of the technology to the energy sector.
The EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum (hereafter called the Forum) will:
- Identify relevant existing and emerging blockchain initiatives, monitor and analyse blockchain developments and trends, as well as the potential implications in terms of opportunities and challenges for Europe and for the effective functioning of the digital single market (DSM); - Produce and share knowledge and a more in-depth understanding of opportunities and issues at stake of blockchain technologies, possible use cases and the framework conditions needed to promote deployment, adoption and cross-border use; - Create an attractive forum, bringing together Europe’s leading stakeholders, practitioners and experts to facilitate experience sharing and reflections, animate and lead debate engaging with blockchain technologists, innovators, citizens, industry and other organisations and stakeholders.
Blockchain has transformed the finance world, providing a decentralised platform to connect parties in entirely new ways. It is now set to be the game-changer in the energy market, enabling the transactive energy landscape to become reality.
World's Largest Smart Cities Business Network And Marketplace LABCITIES provides a global directory of smart city professionals and organizations with th
Devant l’enjeu croissant que revêtent l’agriculture urbaine et les politiques alimentaires, les initiatives des collectivités se multiplient. En tant qu’association d’élus des grandes villes, métropoles et grandes intercommunalités, France urbaine a conduit, tout au long de l’année 2017, une réflexion sur le thème de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation. Réalisée en partenariat avec le ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères, Vivapolis et la Caisse des dépôts, cette réflexion a abouti à la réalisation d’une publication intitulée : « Villes, agriculture et alimentation : expériences françaises ». Trente collectivités, parmi lesquelles l’ensemble des vingt-deux métropoles, ont pris part à ce travail de recensement des stratégies alimentaires territoriales et des projets les plus innovants dans le domaine de l’agriculture urbaine et péri-urbaine. Empty description
La Ville de Rennes, adhérente du réseau européen Energy Cities depuis plus de 20 ans, accueille cette année la conférence annuelle de l'association, du (...)
One of the things that city authorities continue to most struggle with is citizen participation. More than ten years after the Leipzig Charter, which set out the goal of participative integrated urban regeneration, the picture across Europe remains highly uneven. Happily though, there are many beacons of excellence, and as a programme committed to participative principles, URBACT has supported many of them. Cities like Amersfoort (NL), Gdansk (PL) and Aarhus (DK) are amongst them, whilst networks like CHANGE! have championed approaches that place citizens at the centre of service design and delivery.
Commons Transition presents this report in two volumes by Céline Piques and Xavier Rizos, with the support of P2P Foundation founder Michel Bauwens.
The Commons movement is facing a challenge: to articulate the optimum rate at which a resource can be harvested or used without damaging its ability to replenish itself.
The next economy will have to balance the needs of Earth’s expanding population with the shrinking level of resources which are available to everyone. This dynamic equilibrium is called carrying capacity. It is a middle path between the ‘entropic’ faster, geometric growth rates of human population, individual consumption and economic production, and the ‘negentropic’ slower, arithmetic replenishment rates of water, food and fossil fuels.
The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), the Next generation internet foundation (FING), GreenIT.fr and WWF France have collaborated to contribute to the discussion around the possible types of action that public authorities—at the national as well as local levels—could undertake in order to leverage the digital transition to drive the ecological transition. We have also benefited from the contribution of several other actors, foremost among which are the French Digital Council (Conseil national du numérique) and the Transitions2 network (réseau Transitions2).
Le conseil de Rennes Métropole a validé ce 5 avril 2018 le projet de Plan Climat-Air-Énergie territorial (PCAET). 10 objectifs, 109 actions concrètes pour un budget de 350 M€ : il s'agit d'un engagement majeur de tout le territoire pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique.
Something really amazing is happening in Liége in Belgium. I was last there 4 years ago, where I gave talks and did meetings in support of Liege en Transition, and to attend a meeting to promote a project they had just launched called ‘Ceinture Aliment-Terre Liégeoise’ (‘The Liége Food Belt’). When I was there, their event brought together academics, politicians, farmers, and many other people with an interest in food, to explore the practicalities of a co-ordinated relocalisation of the food system. That was four years ago. Now I’ve been back after four years and, as I said, something really amazing is happening i
Experts agree on one point: Blockchain technology has the potential to make digital transactions secure and, thus, useful for industry. New business opportunities are arising.
Dans le cadre de son observatoire de la rénovation énergétique, l’Agence Parisienne du Climat (APC) propose une cartographie des copropriétés (lien externe) qui se sont lancées dans une démarche de rénovation énergétique dans la métropole parisienne. Le but : mettre en visibilité des opérations exemplaires, proches de chez vous, pour vous en inspirer et faciliter la mise en place de votre projet.
What are the key ingredients for creating streets that function as quality public places that draw people in? Below is our list of 8 principles for fostering Streets as Places, based on our years of experience in working with communities, the observations and research of well-known placemakers like Jane Jacobs and Allan B. Jacobs, and recent conversations with folks like Victor Dover, Ben Hamilton-Baillie, and Gil Peñalosa
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