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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
Winning strategies for a sustainable future
Posted on: 24 January 2014
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In 2013, the German Bertelsmann Foundation organized the “Reinhard Mohn Prize” for outstanding dedication and contribution to sustainable development. The prize was awarded to former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, in November 2013. The publication for the Reinhard Mohn Prize 2013, “Winning Strategies for a Sustainable Future,” provides some general perspective on SD strategies and actions and global trends of SD. Moreover, the publication presents pioneering SD strategy approaches from different continents, including Bhutan, Costa Rica, Finland, Ghana and Tasmania. The week leading up to the award ceremony on 7 November 2013 included a number of events dedicated to the prize and the topic of sustainability.
New lenses on future cities
Posted on: 17 January 2014
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Published by Shell and Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities, this report explains why the compact city model is key to resource efficiency, and how these cities can also be highly liveable.
Sustainable Development Goals: Briefing papers
Posted on: 7 January 2014
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The Women’s Major Group, which aims to assure effective public participation of women’s non-governmental groups in the UN policy processes on sustainable development, has issued a series of briefing papers from for the 7th session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, being held on 6-10 January 2014. These papers include analysis and key recommendations by Women’s Major Group members on the specific issues being covered in this session. These include: Sustainable cities and human settlements and sustainable transport; Sustainable consumption and production, including chemicals and waste; and Climate change and disaster risk reduction.
Modelling sustainable urban transition dynamics. Cardiff, 3-4 July 2013
Posted on: 7 January 2014
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This event offers a platform for interdisciplinary collaborations regarding long term urban planning, bringing together academics and practitioners to discuss experiences, opportunities and limitations of using system dynamics modelling approaches to investigate suitable urban transition. A book of abstracts is available online.
Amazonia Security Agenda: Strengthening the water, energy, food and health security nexus in the region and beyond
Posted on: 3 January 2014
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In a new report, the Global Canopy Programme and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, argues that growing threats to Amazonia’s water, energy, food and health security will be multiplied in coming decades by climate change, creating severe risks for people, governments and economies across South America. It calls for a new security agenda for Amazonia and its countries. One that focuses not only on national security in a traditional sense, but acts to strengthen the fundamental underpinnings of a flourishing society: sustained access to water, energy, food and good health for all.
Sustainable development in the European Union: 2013 monitoring report of the EU sustainable development strategy
Posted on: 13 December 2013
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The EU sustainable development strategy, launched by the European Council in Gothenburg in 2001 and renewed in June 2006, aims for the continuous improvement of quality of life for current and future generations. The Eurostat monitoring report, published every two years, provides an objective, statistical picture of progress, based on the EU set of sustainable development indicators. Quantitative rules applied consistently across indicators, and visualised through weather symbols, provide a relative assessment of whether Europe is moving in the right direction, and with sufficient haste, given the objectives and targets defined in the strategy. The data presented cover the period from 1990 to 2012 (or the latest year available). The statistics covered illustrate the range of issues relevant for sustainable development, and should contribute to raising awareness of the opportunities and challenges lying ahead.
Urban Low Emission Development Strategies (Urban-LEDS)
Posted on: 11 December 2013
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The Urban-LEDS project, funded by the European Commission, and implemented by UN-Habitat and ICLEI, has the objective of enhancing the transition to low emission urban development in emerging economy countries by offering selected local governments in Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa a comprehensive methodological framework (the GreenClimateCities methodology) to integrate low-carbon strategies into all sectors of urban planning and development.
Urban development with climate co-benefits: Aligning climate, environmental and other development goals in cities
Posted on: 9 December 2013
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This report highlights a number of successful initiatives that improved regional urban sustainability while also addressing other local problems, thus achieving co-benefits. The report and cases presented here not only detail the magnitude of the co-benefits that certain sectors achieved, but also provide insights into the conditions, which enabled local co-benefits to continue to evolve. They provide ideas on how positive changes can be attained as well as an understanding on how cities can generate solutions that have large, short and long-term positive benefits in terms of climate change mitigation and how this approach can be effectively embedded into local policy settings to contribute to cities’ ability to generate co-benefits at local level.
One Wales: One planet. The Sustainable Development Annual Report 2012-2013
Posted on: 6 December 2013
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This report explains how the Welsh Government’s Sustainable Development Scheme has been implemented between April 2012 and March 2013.
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