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International Building Exhibition Hamburg
Posted on: 27 March 2013
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The International Building Exhibition (IBA) Hamburg will run from 23 March until 3 November 2013. About 60 projects will be exhibited to the public, following six years of project work and preparation. The IBA is an urban development project that combines architecture, urban planning and private housing construction with the transformation of socially disadvantaged areas and sustainability.
Putting it in context and making it fit for purpose. London, 20 February 2013
Posted on: 26 March 2013
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In October 2012 the European Commission outlined its proposals to streamline environmental impact assessment. The proposals are intended to lighten administrative burdens and make it easier to assess the potential impacts of major projects, without weakening existing environmental safeguards. Over the next year Member States will provide feedback to the European Commission on their view of the proposals. This conference provided an opportunity for a wide range of stakeholders from different perspectives including developers, policy makers, legal experts, regulators and EIA and other appraisal practitioners to set out their views. Presentations are available online.
OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Italy
Posted on: 22 March 2013
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The OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme provides independent assessments of countries’ progress in achieving their domestic and international environmental policy commitments, together with policy relevant recommendations. They are conducted to promote peer learning, to enhance countries’ accountability to each other and to the public, and to improve governments’ environmental performance, individually and collectively. The latest report presents an environmental performance review for Italy.
Passenger transport
Posted on: 22 March 2013
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This Thematic Research Summary (TRS) has been produced as part of the activities of the Transport Research and Innovation Portal (TRIP). This Thematic Research Summary covers Passenger Transport which is one of the 24 themes in TRIP, and provides: an overview of research on passenger transport focusing on EU-funded projects; and analysis and compilation of research findings and recommendations.
Martitime ports freight and passenger statistics
Posted on: 22 March 2013
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This article analyses the latest statistical data on freight handling and passenger traffic in ports in the European Union.
European nearly-zero energy buildings
Posted on: 21 March 2013
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The British Social Housing Foundation is involved in a three- year project which is currently being funded by the EU’s Intelligent Energy Programme. This is entitled the nearly-Zero Energy Challenge and will build capacity and confidence amongst Europe’s social, cooperative and public housing providers ahead of the nearly-Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) obligations to be introduced in 2020, which will require that all new buildings should be nearly-Zero in terms of their energy consumption, with any energy required sourced from renewable supplies. In partnership with CECODHAS Housing Europe, BSHF has recently published a progress report on the “Fair Energy Transition towards nearly-Zero Energy Buildings”. Social, cooperative and public housing providers in Europe currently own and manage over 27 million homes (12 per cent of the total housing stock), many of which needs significant improvement to increase its energy efficiency. The progress report presents the current developments towards nZEB in Europe, as well as the barriers faced. The report also provides recommendations for action that could be implemented to ease the transition to nearly-zero energy homes, with a variety of best policy and practice examples emerging throughout Europe that are dealing with different aspects of delivering a fair energy transition. The report was presented at the World Sustainable Energy Days conference in Wels, Austria on 1st March 2013. This report is available here and a copy of the presentation made at this event can be viewed online.
Communicating EU research and innovation: a guide for project participants
Posted on: 19 March 2013
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This brochure, published by the European Commission, aims to provide a tool to better communicate about project(s) and achieved results. This short guide gives some examples of successful communication activities, offers a word of warning about commercial organisations seeking to sell their dissemination services and provides an elaborate checklist to develop a sound strategy for communication about the work. Moreover it informs about legal requirements and expectations starting at the negotiation phase right up to the end of the project and how the European Commission, can help coordinators increase their outreach, for example by publicising events and results via the European Commission websites.
Tourism statistics: summer season occupancy
Posted on: 15 March 2013
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This article analyses the tourism trends of the 2012 summer season (June to September) in the European Union (EU) Member States and EFTA countries. In terms of nights spent at hotels and similar accommodation establishments, tourism recorded positive growth rates in most countries, compared with the same period in 2011.
Cleaner air in our cities
Posted on: 14 March 2013
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EUROCITIES has published its response to the European Commission’s consultation on the review of EU air policy.
Development effectiveness at the local and regional level
Posted on: 14 March 2013
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PLATFORMA promotes the attributes of international development activities of local and regional governments in the European Union, compared to those of international donors or of civil society, while underlining their complementary nature This new publication on local and regional development cooperation considers the opportunities that exist to improve synergies between development-related actions led by local and regional governments and EU strategies promoting decentralisation and local governance. It also examines the accessibility of information on EU support to decentralisation and local governance. The report also includes a number of examples of development cooperation initiatives undertaken by a number of European municipalities and regions.
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