Female councillors have met with council officers in Glasgow to discuss how to incorporate women’s lived experience and embed gender equality into the City Development Plan.
The team will develop the council’s relationship with the private sector so investment can be attracted for climate initiatives such as local heating networks.
Glasgow Airport’s Living Lab digital twin competition aims to facilitate the development of digital twin technology solutions tailored for the aviation sector.
Glasgow Transport Strategy will play a central role in battling climate change and aims to create more liveable neighbourhoods as well as tackle inequality.
The city will target partnerships capable of delivering large-scale interventions in everything from energy systems and transport to buildings and biodiversity.
Glasgow’s cycling parking hubs are accessed through the free Cyclehoop app and will allows users to find vacant spaces, add credit as well as book a space.
The city council distributed Scotland Loves Local Glasgow Gift Cards worth £105 to 85,000 low-income households to support them during the cost-of-living crisis.
Digital twin versions of three buildings at Scotland’s University of Glasgow will assess how compliance models can be used to improve building performance.
The spread of solar power across the council estate is part of the plan to decarbonise the city’s energy system and ease pressure on the council’s finances.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency introduced the tool to chart the success of the first phase of the city’s low emission zone, ahead of phase two.
Thousands of trees have been planted across Aberdeen while Glasgow’s Clyde Climate Forest has received a £200,000 funding boost from the eight local councils.
Funding from the ICLEI Action Fund and Google.org will help to boost projects aimed at improving the environment, reducing GHG and climate change adaptation.
The funding will help progress a range of projects including the Govan City Network active travel route as well as several Liveable Neighbourhood projects.
Multi-billion investment over 30 years could better connect more than 1.5 million people to employment, education, and health services in and around the city.
The framework will support delivery of the Glasgow Green Deal, a nine-year mission to transform the city’s economy and tackle climate and ecological emergencies.
The pilot project of the solar-powered LED signs saw a decrease in the percentage of conflicts between drivers and cyclists so have been installed at multiple locations across the city.
The Ultra-Smart Cycle System is mounted on the lead rider’s bike and uses a military-grade encrypted signal that sets a timed traffic light cycle in motion to hold traffic for 45 seconds.
The roll-out will enable Optibus’ operating companies to improve the service and operational efficiency of buses across Glasgow, Bristol, Essex, Yorkshire, and Cornwall.
The plan aims to help those already impacted by change as well as futureproof the city and aid more people to understand the direct and sometimes unseen indirect local impacts of climate change.
Systems aim to mitigate the effects of climate change and are linked to a smart water management hub which uses predictive weather technology to reduce the likelihood of localised flood risk ahead of storm events.
The initiative, which will provide European cities with $25,000 for projects that use art and design to improve street safety and revitalise public spaces, spurred a reduction in traffic crashes in the US.
Analysis shows that place-based approaches to achieving net-zero targets would bring double the economic and social benefits of a single national approach, at far lower cost.
Glasgow City Council is working in partnership with registered social landlords and others with data suggesting that 65 per cent of households living in the city’s social rented housing sector do not use a broadband connection in their home.
Following extensive consultation and preparation over the past year, the Glasgow Transport Strategy covers more than 100 policies that provide a vision for getting about Scottish city.
UK Cities Climate Investment Commission calls for “place-based demonstrators” or neighbourhood pilots where green investment opportunities can be gathered together as a package.
The 2021 survey noted that that city dwellers’ perceptions of how technology is helping to address urban challenges has been highly affected by the pandemic and its acceleration of digital transformation.
Research carried out by the Eurocities network to monitor the ambitions of large cities all around Europe shows that action must be about more than setting targets.
An opening briefing at the conference drew attention to the efforts of cities and regions to deliver on ambitious climate action, especially in working across all levels of government.
The early years nurseries will use air source heat pumps and smart grey water systems to support Glasgow’s Climate Emergency Plan and the Cop26 host city to achieve net-zero carbon by 2030.
The Global Cities Climate Action Exhibition bids to demonstrate cities’ critical roles in reaching the ambitious targets being discussed by key international bodies and leaders at the conference.
The Storymap enables residents and Cop26 attendees to create their own personalised walking tour of key sites that are helping the host city reach its goal of net-zero carbon by 2030.
The diverse range of projects in the plan include scaling up the Clyde Climate Forest by 9,000 hectares, a city-wide energy-efficient retrofit programme and a proposal to power district heating systems using the River Clyde.
Five per cent of total screen time on each Street Hub unit can be used to promote local community and municipal services such as food banks, health and social care or leisure activities.
With human error a major factor, the Vision Zero for serious or fatal incidents will be based upon creating a safe system for the city’s road network, involving a range of measures including safety cameras.
The measures will play an essential role in enhancing the attractiveness of public transport to discourage private car use and help build more sustainable travel behaviours.
Initial analysis by the new UK Cities Climate Investment Commission suggests that meeting net zero in London and the major cities could bring up to £330bn of investment into the country.
By signing the declaration, Glasgow will become a member of a network of more than 50 European cities, working to raise awareness of the benefits of the circular economy.
The cities chosen are considered to have come up with the boldest urban innovations emerging from the pandemic with the challenge aiming to spread the most promising ideas.
Researchers at the University of Glasgow said the experience provides key lessons for future data engagement, especially in the context of the Scottish Government’s digital strategy.
Investment will be delivered over the next two years and will see installation of 1,800 new ultra-rapid charging points at motorway service areas with a further 1,750 charge points in towns and cities.
The Scottish city has outlined achievements to date as well as next steps and priorities, including the renewed focus of digital investment to support recovery from the pandemic.
A network of public drinking water top-up taps installed by Scottish Water across Scotland has saved the equivalent of 250,000 plastic bottles and is being expanded to 70 more locations.
Britain’s first hydrogen train has begun trials in the Midlands while Tees Valley in north-east England is announced as the location for the nation’s first hydrogen transport hub.
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.
The scheme follows an initial pilot at six primary schools with a reported 69 per cent fewer vehicles identified outside those schools during the morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up.
The programme is aimed at both existing urban professionals, as well as those with multi-disciplinary environmental backgrounds and will create professional pathways in urban climate change leadership.
The city has been awarded £3.5m from Sustrans Scotland, which it will put towards temporary travel infrastructure to support safe distancing to help stifle the spread of Covid-19.
The project will involve developing a demonstrator that will create a virtual 3D environment that models Orkney and the different components in its energy system from electric vehicles to generators and turbines.
The Scottish city is launching a project designed to better manage rainwater in the Drumchapel area, as well as improve greenspace and protect waterways from pollution.
The official partnership comes after a series of successful collaborations in the UK with the City of London, City of Glasgow, London Borough of Brent and City of Westminster.
The 10-year draft plan aims to respond to the city’s evolving demands as well as reinforce the Council’s ambition of making the Scottish capital carbon-neutral by 2030.
The Council’s Plastics Reduction Strategy has set out a 24-point action plan for preventing and reducing the amount of plastic used and then disposed of in the Scottish city.
Boston Networks claims that by the end of November, over 30 per cent of businesses, six local authorities and almost 1.4 million people will have access to affordable IoT connectivity across Scotland.
The high proportion of short-distance trips – independent of a city’s density or public transit network – highlights the universal potential for shared scooters and bikes in a new report.
A public-private project has equipped the 20-storey building in the Scottish city with IoT technology, free fibre-optic broadband and will provide digital inclusion classes.
Schools chosen for the pilot have a history of complaints and concerns from parent councils, community council and elected members about pupil safety on the school run.
