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Five lessons cities can learn from Cape Town6 Apr 18 - Other cities can learn from Cape Town where water supplies remain at high risk because the long-term predictions for rainfall remain uncertain. |
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Can a city ever be truly carbon neutral?3 Apr 18 - Upon becoming Greater Manchester’s first elected mayor, Andy Burnham announced his ambition to make the city-region one of the greenest in Europe. |
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London leads new global green finance rankings21 Mar 18 - London’s reputation as a leading financial centre has now extended to include the field of sustainability. |
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Heart attacks can rise during extremes of heat13 Mar 18 - Extremes of heat are dangerous. Just how dangerous is still being established. But since heat waves are on the way, city-dwellers need to know. |
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Cities study reveals much bigger carbon footprints9 Mar 18 - Cities are generating up to 60 per cent more greenhouse gases than thought, thanks to their reliance on goods and services from outside their borders. |
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Auckland City eyes green bonds issue8 Mar 18 - Auckland Council could issue green bonds to cover the cost of cutting emissions and adapting to climate change. |
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Three NZ cities get high world ranking for renewable energy1 Mar 18 - Three New Zealand urban areas are among 101 global cities getting more than 70 per cent of their electricity from renewable sources. |
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Climate will push European cities to breaking point23 Feb 18 - A new study highlights the urgent need to adapt urban areas across Europe to cope with floods, droughts and heatwaves. |
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Want to know about city pollution? Ask a pigeon20 Feb 18 - Pigeons might be seen as the scourge of cities, but researchers say they could help us to explore a host of toxins in the air, from lead to pesticides. |
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Urban forests add to cities’ health ... and wealth31 Jan 18 - Planting more urban forests is a simple way not only to improve the health of a city’s people, but to make them wealthier, too. |
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Bank partners with global mayors to green cities15 Dec 17 - A European development bank has partnered with city mayors from all over the world to mobilise more than $1.5 billion in urban investment to help combat climate change. |
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Outlook grim for warmer Auckland, warns report7 Dec 17 - Floods, fires, droughts, storms, slips, pests and diseases are Auckland’s future, threatening primary production and human health, warns a new report. |
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Nature's drying up, so maybe we should be mining our cities5 Dec 17 - Instead of extracting dwindling raw materials from nature, the time has come to start re-using materials from buildings and infrastructure in cities. |
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Don't bury bike-sharing, there's still room on the road4 Dec 17 - Dramatic images of bike graveyards shouldn't be taken at face value – there's hope for bike-sharing schemes yet. |
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City trees feel the heat ... and love it27 Nov 17 - City trees are responding to climate change and urban growth, making the most of the heat island effect. |
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Three ways cities are leading the climate change fight21 Nov 17 - Cities account for 75 per cent of the world’s energy use and 76 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions. |
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The inconvenient truth about smart cities20 Nov 17 - Plans for more wired, networked, connected urban areas face challenges if they fail to account for existing, local, non-digital elements such as government and socioeconomic conditions. |
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Cities could save billions while saving the planet15 Nov 17 - Climate change action at the local level has the potential to save as much as £7 billion each year across the 50 largest cities in the UK. |
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