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Framing urban sustainable development: Features, challenges and potentials of urban SD from a multi-level governance perspective
Posted on: 24 January 2014
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This latest Quarterly Report from the European Sustainable Development Network provides an overview of the concept of urban sustainable development (SD) as well as initiatives and programs of urban SD on the global and European level. In order to complement the ESDN Quarterly report(see above) and as preparatory documents for the 10th ESDN Workshop.
The ESDN has written two new case studies. One maps urban sustainable development initiatives and programmes in Europe and beyond http://www.sd-network.eu/pdf/case%20studies/ESDN%20Case%20Study_No%2016_final.pdf. The other one shows concrete examples and experiences with applying urban SD in three different European cities (Copenhagen, Newcastle and Vienna). http://www.sd-network.eu/pdf/case%20studies/ESDN%20Case%20Study_No%2016_final.pdf
Has the environment programme of the LIFE Programme been effective?
Posted on: 24 January 2014
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The objective of the audit by the European Court of Auditors was to answer the question: ‘Does the LIFE “Environment” component of the LIFE programme3 operate effectively?’
EU energy, transport and GHG emissions trends to 2050
Posted on: 23 January 2014
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The European Commission has set out its goal of a Europe which, by 2030, emits 40% less carbon dioxide than it did in 1990, uses renewable energy for 27% of its energy, and employs a reserve mechanism to regulate its carbon market.
European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities: Strategic Implementation Plan
Posted on: 22 January 2014
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The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities & Communities seeks to significantly accelerate the industrial-scale roll-out of smart city solutions integrating technologies from Energy, Transport and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This is where there is most untapped innovation potential and most environment and societal benefits to be gained. The EIP has published its Implementation Plan, setting out the EIP’s ideas on how to best harness innovative technologies, innovative funding mechanisms and innovative public private partnerships. The focus is very much on societal and environmental benefits.
Design first or last? A fork in the road for Helsinki’s new City Plan
Posted on: 20 January 2014
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This blog looks at some of the newest master plans and development strategies European metropolitan cities are putting forward. The author argues that across Europe, and in North America, one of the key reasons why cities are getting ecstatic about urban form is the poor performance of the conventional modernist zoning approach to this end.
Learning from Europe 2014
Posted on: 16 January 2014
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The Learning from Europe seminar at BDP brought together the finalists of the European City of the Year Award to give a more in-depth presentation of the challenges and changes facing their cities. The Awards recognise the best, most enduring or most improved urban environments. Video presentations are available for Istanbul, Malmo and Marseille.
Accessible tourism in Europe. Brussels, 3-4 December 2013
Posted on: 16 January 2014
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The aim of this event was to raise awareness on the right of everybody to have equal access to tourism services and destinations and to present some success stories and best practices in the field. Presentations are available online.
Trends in extreme weather events in Europe: implications for national and European Union adaptation strategies
Posted on: 7 January 2014
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A new report from the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), warns that climate change will bring more severe weather to Europe’s door, and that urgent action is required if member states are to be adequately prepared. Noting that ‘heat waves, floods and storms do not respect national frontiers’, the report calls for policy makers to act now at both national and EU levels.
ULI Europe Real Estate Trends Conference. London, 19 June 2013
Posted on: 7 January 2014
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The conference, entitled GameSHIFT, focused on the major changes the real estate industry is facing in terms of sustainability, housing, infrastructure, finance and technology. Presentations are available online.
Attitudes of Europeans towards urban mobility
Posted on: 3 January 2014
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The results of a survey looking into Europeans’ attitudes towards urban mobility has been published. The survey was designed to look at Europeans’: transport habits; experience of transport problems in EU cities; opinions of measures to improve travel within cities; and expectations for traffic improvements within cities and their opinions of who is responsible for these improvements.
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