UN Environment energy initiative named best partnership
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Copenhagen – UN Environment’s District Energy in Cities
Initiative, which unlocks private sector finance to cut greenhouse
gas emissions from heating and cooling, has been named best
partnership
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Knitted textile shells save on construction materials
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Zurich – ETH researchers have knit a textile that serves as
the primary shaping element for curved concrete shells. Their new
technology, which saves on both construction
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Smart urban logistics institute explores the underground
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Beijing – Logistics firm JD.com is launching a new research
centre in Xiongan, China, which will focus on developing an
underground logistics system in smart cities in
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World Cities Day 2018 focuses on urban resilience
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Liverpool – World Cities Day is celebrated each year on 31
October. This year’s event will focus on building sustainable and
resilient cities.
The United...
Developing-world cities key to the 1.5C target
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Incheon – Fast-growing cities in the developing world have a
pivotal role to play in limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
Celsius, finds the latest UN climate
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New urban accelerator empowers cities tackling climate change
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New York – The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy
has launched a new accelerator called Innovate4Cities. One of its
first outcomes is a partnership
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Egyptians should be protected from forced relocation
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Cairo – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate
housing is urging the Egyptian government to meaningfully engage
with people facing eviction due to new
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Four Chinese cities pledge to slash emissions from buildings
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Beijing – Senior officials from Beijing, Fuzhou, Qingdao and
Shanghai have announced plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
from buildings in their cities.
The initiative,...
World Habitat Day focuses on municipal waste
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Nairobi – This year’s World Habitat Day is focusing on
responsible municipal solid waste management, which is rooted in
six Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. The global
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NEST harvests energy from its façade
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Dübendorf ZH – The latest unit in the research and innovation
building NEST has now opened. SolAce features various façade
elements that produce more energy than the
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New report calls for ‘agile’ cities
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Tianjin – Cities will have to become ‘agile’ to capture the
opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, according to a
new report from the World Economic Forum.
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Google Maps helps calculate a city’s carbon footprint
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Mountain View, CA – A new tool using data from Google Maps can
calculate a city’s emissions from transportation and buildings,
rooftop solar energy potential and even
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Federal Council to improve traffic situation for urban areas
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Bern – The Federal Council is earmarking 1.34 billion Swiss
francs to improve traffic in urban areas. The funds will be
distributed as part of the third
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New cities could put millions at risk from climate change
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Montreal – A forthcoming study from McGill University suggests
that developers and planning authorities involved in building over
one hundred new cities around the world are doing
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Empa rescues historic iron bridges
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Dübendorf ZH – Carbon fibre plasters strengthen the resistance
of old iron bridges. A technique developed by scientists at the
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and
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Urbanization estimates shouldn’t be exaggerated
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New York – Urbanization figures released by the European
Commission in July are wrong, according to a team of researchers at
New York University. They calculate that
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New association aims to make cities smarter
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Bern – The cities of Zug, Zurich, Winterthur and St.Gallen
have teamed up with SBB, Swisscom and Swiss Post to form the
association Smart City Hub Switzerland.
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Cities worldwide commit to net-zero carbon buildings by 2030
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London – Nineteen global cities have signed a declaration to
significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from their cities by
making all new buildings net-zero carbon by 2030.
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economiesuisse calls for market-oriented spatial policy
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Zurich – Spatial policy in Switzerland should strengthen the
country as a business location and improve quality of life,
according to economiesuisse. The umbrella organization of Swiss
companies
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Russia brings architecture into the future
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Moscow – During the Soviet era, most living space in Russia
was industrially manufactured. Subsequently, buildings proliferated
uncontrollably at the hands of investors. But now, the
country
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