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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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September 26, 3:12 AM
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More recently, Bologna has attracted attention for another reason. In January 2024, it became the first major Italian city to adopt an urban speed limit of 30 kilometers (19 miles) per hour on most city streets, with the exception of a handful of multilane arterial roads.
The policy, dubbed Bologna Città 30, made headlines across Italy and helped Bologna earn a European Union award for sustainable urban mobility, with the European Commission singling out the policy for improving road safety and air quality.
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September 26, 2:12 AM
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The Basque Country, committed to sustainability, has embraced this cause with the “Soil Protection Strategy Euskadi 2030”. This comprehensive protection initiative recognises the complexity of the issue and highlights how a healthy soil is a diverse and multifunctional ecosystem crucial to achieving climate neutrality, a circular and clean economy, to reverse biodiversity loss, provide healthy food, safeguard human health and tackle desertification and soil degradation.
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September 24, 4:06 AM
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Once upon a time, on a planet at once very far and very close to ours, there was climate.
Not “climate change”, just “climate”. At the time, the Great Scientists studying climate were little known and few, basically limited to atmospheric chemistry and physics. But a few scientists rose above the others by understanding that the blanket protecting us from the cold of space was made of greenhouse gases, especially one: CO². But one of these scientists did not delve into the mysteries of the upper atmosphere for, he loved… ice!
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September 24, 2:18 AM
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Rather than impose permanent changes outright, the city’s pop-up pedestrianization scheme, Living Stockholm, makes select streets car-free for fixed periods of time — usually in the summer, when locals are keen to enjoy the outdoors. It’s a strategy that has helped residents buy into the idea that public spaces reserved for driving and parking can be used for so much more.
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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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September 26, 2:32 AM
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Une centaine d'associations interpellent Sébastien Lecornu pour la publication de la SNANC, bloquée depuis 2 ans par les lobbies agro-industriels. Enjeux : santé publique, climat et réduction de la consommation de viande en France.
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September 24, 8:06 AM
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Learn how to incite individual behaviour change to support organisational measures: explore our factsheet | Climate Action Accelerator Reducing energy consumption is a crucial lever for reducing an organisation’s climate impact. Efforts to lower emissions related to energy involve a combination of technical improvements and changes at organisational level as well as behavioural changes at an individual level.
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September 24, 2:29 AM
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From war zones to inner-city London, a new generation of land defenders are digging in – reclaiming soil, space and power through community gardens and regenerative action
There is power in a garden. There is power in the land.
And across the world, from Ukraine to Zambia to south London, gardens are springing up and blossoming in some of the most unlikely places. They’re doing so thanks to a rising wave of land defenders: people reclaiming the right to grow healthy food for themselves and their communities, in a world that is increasingly squeezing that into the margins.
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