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Biodiversity & NBS

11 June 2018

Hamburg, London and Milan aim to regenerate deprived city districts with nature-based solutions

The city of Hamburg (Germany) and a team of 33 other cities and organisations in Europe, South America and China launched the international European-funded CLEVER Cities project on 6-8 June in Hamburg. Cities coordinate and lead the project and will use natural interventions, such as building new g...
Biodiversity & NBS Climate Change Mitigation Resilience Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Mobility Procurement Circular Economy Governance Innovation

7 June 2018

EU Commission launch 2021 European Green Capital and 2020 European Green Leaf Awards

The European Commission has launched the competition and the search for the 2021 European Green Capital and 2020 European Green Leaf Awards.   The European Green Capital Award (EGCA), now in its eleventh year, is awarded annually to a European city of over 100,000 inhabitants that has shown it...
Biodiversity & NBS Membership

4 June 2018

European Commission ready to collaborate with cities to drive innovation in the urban water sector

Veronica Manfredi, Director for Quality of Life at DG Environment of the European Commission set the scene for the water session which took place as part of EU Green Cities Summit, Brussels (Belgium), 22-24 May 2018. Pointing out that the national river basin management plans developed under the EU...
Biodiversity & NBS Membership

29 May 2018

Vicenza takes an eco-sustainable and innovative approach to the maintenance of urban green spaces

ICLEI Member Vicenza (Italy) has begun to approach the maintenance of green areas and historic parks in the city center in a more eco-sustainable and innovative way, through a new initiative called AIM Amcps. The initiative uses technologically advanced electrical equipment for the maintenance of u...
Biodiversity & NBS

28 May 2018

European event on greening cities stresses the need for collaboration to upscale NBS

A Coruña (Spain) played host to a three-day event, from 16-18 May 2018, on Nature Based Solutions (NBS) and green infrastructure, which brought to light the need for collaborative action to place NBS as a central element of the sustainable urban development agenda in Europe. The event also em...
Biodiversity & NBS Membership

28 May 2018

Zaragoza launches awareness campaign to reduce water consumption in the city

ICLEI Member Zaragoza (Spain), in collaboration with ECODES (Ecology and Development Foundation), has launched an awareness campaign to reduce water consumption in the city. After several years of continued decline, Zaragoza (Spain) has seen an increase in the rate of water consumption in the city,...
Biodiversity & NBS

18 May 2018

Kadıköy annual environmental festival to focus on water

ICLEI Member Kadıköy (Turkey) will host their annual environment festival, 31 May – 3 June 2018, which will this year focus on the topic of water. Last year’s Çevre Festival saw approximately 20,000 visitors, and almost 100 people from NGOs, local initiatives, and universit...
Biodiversity & NBS

17 May 2018

CoR to host seminar on nurturing nature for sustainable cities and regions

The European Committee of the Regions and DG Research and Innovation will host a joint thematic seminar on nurturing nature for sustainable cities and regions, set to take place in Brussels (Belgium) at the European Committee of the Regions from 09:30 to 17:00. The seminar, titled “Imple...
Biodiversity & NBS

3 May 2018

Cities invited to share their views on turning wastewater utilities into nutrient factories at IFAT

More and more innovative technologies are becoming available, which allow wastewater treatment plants to be turned into water resource recovery facilities. In addition to their traditional function, wastewater utilities can nowadays also produce energy in the form of biogas and feedstock for bio-pla...
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