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Before imposing measures on individuals to increase the housing supply, like forcing them to rent out their vacant properties, the government should look inwards and set the example, Lisbon’s Mayor, Carlos Moedas (PSD), said at a conference about housing on Tuesday. Speaking at the closing of the conference “More Housing – Protection, regulation or brake”, Lisbon’s mayor talked about the government’s plans to increase the supply of housing across the country.
Major European cities such as Amsterdam, Geneva and Brussels, have adopted the doughnut model to guide their green transitions.
L’établissement public territorial de Plaine Commune œuvre depuis 2017 pour généraliser le réemploi de matériaux de construction sur tous les chantiers du territoire. Vigoureusement portée par les élus, cette démarche de « métabolisme urbain » est aujourd’hui une politique publique.
Those who are working for more resilient food systems build on the work of farmers markets – a still popular venue to connect climate-smart food products with urbanites. Photo: Peter Morgan/Flickr Let's not forget what we learned during 2020 about the fragility of our food supply chains: the prevailing, globalized model is as fragile as a…
Britain’s cities need urgent transformation in the next decade and beyond if the country is to meet its 2050 net zero targets and create cleaner, safer spaces for citizens, according to a major study from E.ON and the UK Green Building Council.
Brussels Capital Region will integrate a Citizens Assembly for Climate to help with green and sustainable policy. The assembly will have the power to control government decisions, ask for follow-ups a..
La ministre de la transition énergétique Agnès Pannier-Runacher a annoncé l'interdiction des publicités lumineuses entre une heure et six heures du matin dans le cadre du "plan de sobriété" d'Emmanuel Macron. Ces mesures restrictives ne sont pas nouvelles pour plusieurs villes françaises qui ont déjà enclenché un mouvement de réduction de la voilure publicitaire, jusqu'à parfois l'interdire. Consommation énergétique, mais aussi pollution visuelle et incitation à surconsommer, les publicités sont désormais dans le viseur des villes engagées pour la transition écologique.
While the EU is planning to decarbonise buildings across the bloc to advance the green transition, local authorities are calling for more support to face a shortage of skilled workers to design and implement decarbonisation projects.
Following the announcement of the Swedish city of Malmö as the new MCR2030 Resilience Hub, we talked to mayor Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh about the way this will affect future plans in the realm of urba..
Quinze mois après les élections municipales de juin 2020, les responsables de grandes agglomérations sont confrontés à de multiples tensions. Quatre d’entre eux en font le récit.
The Local Leaders for Europe podcast is a series of interviews conducted at the European Committee of the Regions, the EU's assembly of regional and local authorities. In this episode 7, young elected politicians Emilia Wasielewska, city councillor in Konin, Poland, and Manolis Mavrommatis, deputy mayor in the municipality of Dorida, Greece, show how their generation strive to deliver the European Green Deal locally by leading youth groups that are committed to make their own territories greener, cleaner and more welcoming. They discuss how their cities are tackling climate change at the local level. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Dans un rapport intermédiaire présenté le 6 mai, le think tank qui plaide pour une décarbonation de l’économie s’est attaché à présenter aux acteurs territoriaux des pistes d’actions face aux bouleversements et chocs à venir, dans un contexte de sortie des énergies fossiles et de réchauffement climatique. "« Il est grand temps que les territoires au sens large se projettent face à un avenir qui promet d’être chahuté et conçoivent des stratégies robustes, résilientes, pour faire face aux changements et aux chocs que nous promettent le réchauffement climatique »
Just because an end to Covid is in sight, mayors and cities shouldn’t abandon the bold ideas and actions that made a recovery possible.
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Buildings are accountable for 53% of carbon emissions in the city of Rome, and this is the main issue that needs to be addressed in order to achieve climate neutrality, Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri told EURACTIV in an interview.
Les travaux et rapports scientifiques sont aujourd’hui nombreux à poser la question de l’alimentation de demain et à s’alarmer sur notre capacité à nourrir 11 milliards de personnes à l’horizon 2050 (Esnouf et al., 2011 ; Masson-Delmotte, 2020) tout en respectant la santé humaine et des écosystèmes. L’alimentation est responsable en France du quart de l’empreinte carbone. Elle est à la croisée de plusieurs enjeux, de santé et d’environnement, comme la préservation de la biodiversité, l
Food System Resilience: A Planning Guide for Local Governments is a resource guide aimed at helping local governments build food system resilience in a way that promotes equitable and just food systems.
Women’s leadership has been shown to result in greater responsiveness to citizens’ needs, as well as increased cooperation in delivering sustainable peace and improved outcomes of climate-related projects and policies, writes Ebru Özdemir.
The main message I brought was that cities should be included in global policymaking on climate and the upcoming climate summits. Without cities, it will be impossible to tackle global warming. Moreover, cities want to lead the way. They facilitate innovation and have the capacity to invest on a large scale in clean mobility, green construction and creating a sustainable energy supply.
Les épisodes de fortes chaleurs et de canicules poussent les municipalités à revoir leurs aménagements urbains. Pour lutter contre le phénomène des îlots de chaleur, de plus en plus de villes décident de faire sauter le bitume, pour le remplacer par des espaces naturels, des parcs ou des forêts urbaines. Alors que le béton et le bitume emmagasinent la chaleur et la restituent la nuit, les sols naturels restent plus frais et conservent l’humidité. Novethic a sélectionné cinq exemples de villes qui restaurent la nature.
As the effects of climate change become more apparent, the importance of action at the local level has never been clearer. So how can mayors who want to make their cities healthier, cleaner places overcome barriers to change? At a meeting of 16 global mayors convened in London by the climate-focused leadership group C40 Cities this week, Dr. Maria Neira, the World Health Organization’s director for public and environmental health, outlined six “prescriptions” for mayors aiming to deliver meaningful climate action to their citizens.
Freiburg and Münster are known throughout Europe as examples of successful municipal transport policy. Ramón Linaza, a leading Spanish transport activist, recalls: “we have always seen Freiburg as a reference.” However, Freiburg’s reputation as a cyclist’s city (immortalised in the Tocotronic song Freiburg) is based on a policy that came to fruition in the 1990s. In addition, neither Freiburg nor Münster succeeded in reducing the proportion of cars in the Modal Split (a breakdown of traffic volumes by the different modes of transport). Both roads and car parks continued to be built apace.
From the Wiki for local government innovation, the Govlaunch podcast shares the stories of local government innovators and their efforts to build better governments. Through conversations with cities and towns around the world, each episode explores creative solutions to the challenges communities face, and what local governments can learn from each other’s successes and failures.
Visit govlaunch.com for more stories and examples of local government innovation.
Au-delà des enjeux de formation, on fait ici l’hypothèse que face au multiples défis de la transition écologique, les élu.e.s ont aussi besoin d’accompagnement, de compagnonnage, d’entourage, d’entraide. On propose ici trois pistes exploratoires pour prendre soin de nos élu.es, recueillies en fonction de nos sujets de prédilection ou d’intérêt du moment. Il y en aura sans doute d’autres … mais c’est un début !
Piste n°1 : s’inspirer des Groupe d’Entraide Mutuelle pour répondre au sentiment d’isolement des élu.e.s
Piste n°2 : s’inspirer d’« En Thérapie » pour répondre au sentiment de culpabilité des élu.e.s
Piste n°3 : s’inspirer des Dispositifs Locaux d’Accompagnement des associations pour répondre au problème de conflictualité des élu.e.s
Heads of municipalities in Slovenia’s coal regions – Savinjsko-Šaleška, and Zasavje decided to establish a council of mayors to monitor the phaseout of coal and secure just transition. In the meantime, the government has published action plans for phasing out coal in the two regions. The documents will help Slovenia tap on the Just Transition Fund.
The European Committee of the Regions, together with the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) and the city of Gdańsk, announced today, at the presence of Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson , the creation of the Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Award. The award - named after Paweł Adamowicz, mayor of Gdańsk and member of the CoR, murdered in 2019 - will honour those who fight for freedom and solidarity, and against intolerance, oppression and xenophobia.
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