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November 6, 8:34 AM
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Housing affordability has emerged as a central challenge across Europe, particularly in major cities and tourist hotspots. The issue has rapidly risen to the top of the political agenda: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has named it as one of her key priorities, while the UK government has made it a central mission to deliver 1.5 million new homes over the course of the current parliament. With the EU appointing its first-ever Housing Commissioner, attention is now turning to the forthcoming Affordable Housing Plan, a landmark initiative set to be published in December.
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October 30, 11:34 AM
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A new study on U.S. meat consumption suggests we’ve been missing a crucial piece of the carbon footprint puzzle: where our meat actually comes from.
Researchers found that a person’s “hoofprint,” or meat-related carbon emissions, can vary more than threefold depending on the city they live in, even though Americans eat roughly the same amount of meat nationwide. The difference, they say, lies far beyond city limits.
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October 16, 11:04 AM
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Loin des idées reçues, les personnes précaires éclairent le chemin d’une transition écologique et juste Premières exposées aux effets du dérèglement climatique et de l’effondrement de la biodiversité, les personnes en situation de précarité, souvent ignorées, portent pourtant des savoirs et des expériences concrètes, que le Pacte civique a estimés essentiels pour avancer vers une
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October 15, 9:46 AM
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Britain must prepare for global heating far in excess of the level scientists have pegged as the limit of safety, the government’s climate advisers have warned, as current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate.
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October 9, 10:08 AM
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Berlin's city government will adopt a draft law proposed by a citizen initiative to plant hundreds of thousands of trees in the German capital by 2040. According to public broadcaster rbb, the city government run by the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), shelved plans to introduce its own bill for more green spaces and instead backed the draft from the citizen initiative “Baumentscheid” (tree referendum). The coalition parties said they could “not identify any need for major changes” to the citizen initiative’s draft, which will therefore be adopted “unchanged in its core parts”.
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October 9, 9:12 AM
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In episode two of the Urban Question, we discuss the impact growing cities have on the planetary boundaries In association with Bloxhub and WRLDCTY, The Urban Question is a special series of the Urban Report podcast from FORESIGHT Climate & Energy, examining how cities are adjusting to a 21st-century citizen “We have to combine a low-emission building with high-absorption city nature.” Welcome to The Urban Question, a special series of the Urban Report podcast from FORESIGHT Climate & Energy in association with Bloxhub, the Nordic hub for sustainable urbanisation and the WRLDCTY forum.
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October 9, 8:40 AM
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What has a doughnut to do with the planet? At first glance, nothing. But British economist Kate Raworth uses this powerful image to lay out the conditions for a sustainable economy. In her 2017 bestseller, Doughnut Economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist, she presents a model that meets the needs of all people, while respecting the planet’s limited resources.
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October 1, 4:50 AM
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The main report provides an integrated narrative, examining the central and vital role that the climate and natural environment play in ensuring health, resilience and prosperity for people, anchored in the EU’s vision for a sustainable Europe by 2050.
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October 1, 4:01 AM
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The waste problem in Amsterdam’s city centre is growing, increasing litter, overflowing trash bins, and mounting pressure on the city’s infrastructure. To tackle these challenges, AMS Institute and the City of Amsterdam have partnered in an ambitious collaboration: ‘Living Lab Schone Binnenstad’. This program focuses on developing, testing, and implementing innovative waste management solutions to make the inner city cleaner, more circular, and liveable.
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September 30, 5:30 AM
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A new study reveals that Sweden has a high potential to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 through changes in its food system. Key strategies include adjusting diets, phasing out fossil fuels across the food chain and reducing food waste. Together, they can help us stay within the planetary boundary for climate and improve people’s health.
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September 26, 9:35 AM
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For decades, European leaders have walked into international environmental meetings with the swagger of the world’s self-proclaimed climate quarterback.
On Wednesday, that image will be shattered — along with European efforts to put pressure on major polluters like China — as the European Union takes a seat on the bench.
It’s an indignity entirely of the EU’s own making.
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September 26, 4:56 AM
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En réutilisant les eaux usées traitées d’une station d’épuration pour arroser son parc floral et alimenter ses bassins d’ornement, Orléans Métropole souhaite lutter contre le stress hydrique et optimiser la gestion de la ressource en eau de son territoire.
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September 26, 3:21 AM
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Another Welsh council is banning junk food advertising in certain public places. Cardiff council is stopping any junk food ads on council property in a bid to make Wales' capital healthier.
The policy, approved by the council's cabinet on Friday, is focused on supporting public health, sustainability, and community wellbeing. As well as the clampdown on junk food advertising the new measure also bans ads for petrol and diesel vehicles, payday loans, tobacco, and vapes. Instead the council is setting out to encourage brands to promote healthier options.
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November 6, 8:28 AM
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The authors discuss the challenges of curbing land take and the complexity of achieving the net-zero limit. They call for a shift in perspective beyond the restrictive logic of traditional land-use planning and suggest that the regenerative potential of cities be unleashed.
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October 23, 2:24 AM
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À Strasbourg, la nouvelle mandature écologiste a mis en œuvre plusieurs dispositifs de participation, mais qui s’avèrent peu appropriés par les habitants et ne transforment pas le fonctionnement des institutions qui les soutiennent.
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October 15, 10:04 AM
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Placemaking Week Europe turned Reggio Emilia into a living laboratory, with 600+ participants co-creating solutions in five neighborhoods. Through Local Challenges, locals and internationals tested ideas—from quick actions to long-term strategies—showing how participatory approaches make cities more liveable, inclusive, and resilient.
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October 9, 10:13 AM
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Nikos Chatzilias spends his days tending to buzzing bee colonies with a unique view out over the rooftops of Greece’s capital.
He is among the dozens of Athenians who have embraced urban beekeeping to support local ecosystems, reconnect with nature and enjoy honey flavored by each neighborhood’s local plants and flowers.
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October 9, 9:32 AM
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A rising body of research is trying to quantify the impact of personal climate actions. The results show the most powerful impacts may come from some surprising places.
It's hard to get clear-cut evidence on what impact the personal actions we take in our lives can have on climate change.
While there has long been a focus on how to reduce the carbon footprint of what we buy, do and eat, it's harder to pin down the impact of many other measures people take, from community engagement and how we choose to vote, to where we save our money and the impact we can have in our workplaces.
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October 9, 8:55 AM
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The City of Pirot plans to build a solar power plant on the site of a former unsanitary landfill when it is remediated. The move would strengthen its leadership position in Serbia regarding the use of renewable energy and environmental protection.
In 2013, Pirot opened a regional sanitary landfill, which cost EUR 11 million. It enabled the local authority to shut down an unsanitary landfill on the right bank of the Nišava river. However, the land still hasn’t been remediated and reclaimed.
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October 3, 5:29 AM
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Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries
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October 1, 4:39 AM
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European cities face mounting challenges, from socio-economic inequalities and ageing infrastructure to the urgent demands of climate adaptation. A growing response is tactical urban regeneration, an approach that blends the quick, low-cost interventions of tactical urbanism with the long-term goals of urban renewal.
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October 1, 3:41 AM
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The Czech region of Moravia-Silesia was once referred to as the “boiler room” of Europe, but coal mining is soon slated to be phased out after decades of declining production. While EU-sponsored projects and the Czech government’s retraining programmes have achieved some success in facilitating green transformation, the region’s future remains uncertain amid political corruption, social exclusion, and a lack of a coherent vision for a just transition.
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September 30, 5:29 AM
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In the quest for sustainability within our food systems, changing eating habits has become a critical goal. While various governance strategies have been proposed to facilitate this shift, their effectiveness can vary widely.
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September 26, 5:06 AM
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Social and environmental movements from around the world gather at the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum this week, as the need for food sovereignty could not be more urgent.
Environmental injustice and climate chaos accelerate daily, driven by a global neoliberal economic structure rooted in patriarchy and colonialism.
Agribusiness and fossil fuel corporations deepen hunger, destroy biodiversity, displace peoples and poison communities - all while profiting from the crisis they created.
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September 26, 4:55 AM
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All new housing developments should have to consider community energy projects is part of an amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill being put to a vote in the House of Lords.The Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee spokesperson Earl John Russell has tabled an amendment to the government’s Bill that would see any new large-scale housing development in the UK involve a renewable energy project for the community that’s being created.
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