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Santa Monica launches zero-emissions delivery zone

05 Mar 2021

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator has worked with the city to create the one-square mile voluntary zone by partnering with tech and delivery companies and community organisations.

Siemens works with Hamburg transport provider to equip one of the largest e-bus depots in Europe

18 Dec 2020

Hamburger Hochbahn has set itself the goal of converting its entire fleet of around 1,000 buses to emission-free and climate-friendly vehicles by the end of the decade.

Belfast launches Climate Plan with stark carbon warning

16 Dec 2020

Northern Irish capital has released a Resilience Strategy comprising 30 programmes which will focus on resilience for children, climate and connectivity.

Which cities make the environmental action A-list for 2020?

16 Nov 2020

CDP has named 88 global cities that are working to become resilient, healthy, and prosperous places to live and work while cutting emissions and rapidly building resilience against the climate crisis.

Munich to use autonomous agents in smart city infrastructure trials

12 Nov 2020

Trials kick off on a commercial real-estate development in the city centre where agents will negotiate the price of parking spaces with users able to earn rewards in a digital currency.

Greater Manchester deploys AI-controlled road junctions

06 Nov 2020

The technology anonymously identifies different types of road users at selected junctions and controls traffic signals to allow different modes of transportation to be prioritised as and when required.

Cityzenith to donate digital twin platform to key cities

28 Sep 2020

The technology provider is launching the Clean Cities – Clean Future campaign to help the world’s most polluted urban centres become carbon neutral.

City of Manchester home to "the greenest people" in Britain

14 Sep 2020

The research, carried out by Honda, was based on a range of factors including household recycling, domestic CO2 emissions and household eco measures, combined with survey responses.

Dundee digitises data to speed up its climate action plans

09 Sep 2020

The Scottish city will be using the ClimateView software platform that is designed to help cities live up to their pledges of becoming carbon neutral by visualising action plans.

UK local authorities to go live with smart energy project

27 Aug 2020

Reading Borough Council and Wokingham Borough Council will be the first to connect to the smart energy platform, which forms part of the Thames Valley Live project.

Vehicles map air quality block-by-block in Brooklyn

26 Aug 2020

Aclima has deployed its mobile sensing fleet throughout Downtown Brooklyn to collect representative air sample measurements with its platform – day and night, weekdays and weekends.

Boston rolls out its first electric-assist cargo tricycle

24 Aug 2020

Deployment of the tricycle forms part of the city’s work to reduce emissions from municipal sources and is intended to support city staff performing their daily tasks.

Manchester's civic heat network project passes significant milestone

17 Aug 2020

The final sections of the UK city’s 40 metre high Tower of Light have been installed, which will act as a chimney for a low carbon energy centre.

Final phase of council-owned battery storage site goes live in the UK

11 Aug 2020

Fideoak Mill in Taunton will provide grid-balancing services to National Grid and demonstrates how investment in battery storage and renewables can generate income for councils.

City of Yonkers launches shared e-scooter scheme

04 Aug 2020

This marks the first ever e-scooter pilot in New York State and is scheduled to launch later this month with electric transportation specialist Bird the exclusive provider.

Edinburgh claims the UK’s first fully eco-powered greenspace

13 Jul 2020

Saughton Park in the Scottish capital city is using micro-hydro technology on the Water of Leith, generating electricity for all the park’s needs, including running two ground source heat pump systems.

Energy farm to help German municipality go CO2-free by 2030

06 Jul 2020

Green Solar and Siemens Energy have signed an agreement to develop a concept for Herzogenrath in Aachen that could make the city a national and international leader in the energy transition.

Danish municipalities launch ambitious climate action plans

01 Jul 2020

Samsø and Sønderborg have launched their strategies as part of the Danish Deadline 2020 project, DK2020, which is aligned with the Paris Agreement.

City of Lahti launches personal carbon trading scheme

15 Jun 2020

The free mobile CitiCap app automatically tracks a means of transport used and allows citizens in the Finnish city to benefit from reducing their own mobility emissions.

Manchester to roll out electric refuse collection vehicles

03 Jun 2020

The city council is aiming to halve its direct carbon emissions by 2025 as part of a wider drive to make Manchester zero carbon by 2038 at the latest in response to the climate change emergency.

Survey reveals gap between climate change perceptions and required actions

21 Apr 2020

While three quarters of UK consumers believe climate change is a serious threat, they are still unclear as to which activities in their lives emit carbon.

Almost half of councils unsure of their carbon footprint

10 Feb 2020

According to a freedom of information request from engineering services trade body ECA, councils also lack plans for reducing the carbon emissions from their built assets.

London and Los Angeles team to tackle critical transport challenges

05 Feb 2020

The cities’ mayors have signed an agreement to become Innovator Cities, enabling them to share best practice, ideas and pioneering solutions to solve global transport problems.