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Urban centres provide opportunities for a range of social and cultural activities, as well as being critical for innovations in science, technology and education. They are also of critical importance for social and economic development. However, with approximately 40% of global energy use taking place within city buildings, this sector is also the single largest contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions.
As a result, the design and use of energy and resource-efficient buildings has a key role in climate change mitigation to accelerate the global green economy transition. Although vast savings are possible by constructing new green buildings and retrofitting existing buildings, even greater gains can be achieved by adopting a long-term life-cycle approach involving stakeholders at different stages – from environmentally-minded investors and architects, to sustainable extraction, construction and usage, and the eventual demolition and the recycling or disposal of the building materials.
Cities are well-placed to play a major role in decoupling economic development from resource use and environmental impacts, while finding a better balance between social, environmental and economic objectives. Resource-efficient cities combine greater productivity and innovation with lower costs and reduced environmental impacts, offering at the same time financial savings and increased sustainability.
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Mark and Focus, Vol 4, Issue 2
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How would you rank the bike lanes in your city? Do you use them?
Indeed, well-designed cycling networks can help cities obviate the need for so many private cars and the issues related to health, pollution, space and equity that arise with them.
According to WRI there are five key principles of safe bike lane design:
- Establish safe operational vehicle speeds for all urban streets - Maintain a coherent network approach by integrating new bike lanes with any existing bicycle network - Design bike lanes to prioritise safety for cyclists and pedestrians - Provide ongoing communication and engagement at all stages of the design and implementation of safe bike lanes. - Manage and enforce regulations to protect bike lanes from common types of infringement
Read the article to find out more!
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Nature-based Solutions for Water Security
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The world’s cities are heating up at twice the global average due to the urban heat island effect. At this rate, by 2100 many cities across the world could warm as much as 4 degrees Celsius.
Hotter cities could be catastrophic for public health. If the current trends in urbanization and increasing heat continue, it is expected that the urban population exposed to high temperatures – that is, average summertime highs above 35 ̊C – will increase 800 per cent to reach 1.6 billion by mid-century.
To tackle this issue, UNEP and RMI have prepared a new guide "Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities" which offers planners an encyclopedia of proven options to help cool cities.
In your experience, what are the best approaches to make cities cooler and more liveable?
In Austria climate action revolutions public transport: fifteen years after it was first proposed, the new Klimaticket, or climate ticket, went live on October 26.
Offering seamless travel across all modes of public transport - for only 3 Euros per day - it is intended to galvanize the Alpine nation's fight against climate change.
"The Klimaticket Ö is more than just your ticket for all public transport. It is also the ticket with which we aim to reach the Paris climate goals together".
Good news for sustainable mobility! Will similar initiatives happen elsewhere?
Around the world, architects, activists and communities are finding ways to bring wildlife into urban areas. The wildflowers are thriving in urban areas as city councils decide to let grass grow wild. The world people are welcoming wildlife into cities, where more than half of us live. Here is a look at 10 of innovative urban biodiversity projects.
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Melbourne Water’s Net Zero Future
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Methodological guide for the inclusion of the NDC Ecuador at the Subnational level in territorial Planning - This publication is a product of the Climate Helpdesk technical assistance program which is led by the Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP), managed by LEDS LAC, and prepared by Grupo FARO under the supervision of the Consortium of Provincial Governments of Ecuador (CONGOPE). LEDS LAC is a network of organizations that work to facilitate the design and implementation of low-emission development strategies and the establishment of ambitious climate goals in Latin America and the Caribbean. CONGOPE is an institution specialized in capacity development for the public management of the Intermediate Provincial Governments, which contributes to strengthening the development processes of the provinces of Ecuador. Readers may reproduce this document as long as the source is recognized as follows: FARO Group. (2021). The methodological document "Guide for inclusion of the NDC Ecuador at the subnational level in territorial planning". Quito: FARO Group. The ideas in this document are the point of view of the authors and do not necessarily represent the institutional position of Grupo FARO on the subject. In this publication it has been chosen to use the generic masculine, understanding that all mentions in such a genre always represent women and men. This publication has been prepared with the financial support of LEDS LAC. This document’s content is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of LEDS LAC.
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San Francisco Greening its Streets