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Chicago airport teams to explore sustainable energy options

Air Travel21 Mar 2024

The NREL will advise the CDA airport authority on environmentally sustainable initiatives for new passenger facilities planned through its O’Hare 21 project.

New York bids to become cleanest major city in the US

Smart waste07 Feb 2024

An automated, side-loading garbage truck and a new data-driven containerisation strategy mark the latest phase of New York City mayor Eric Adams’ war on trash.

City of Enid breaks ground on renewable natural gas plant

Batteries and renewables26 Jan 2024

The City of Enid public-private collaboration is the first municipally owned landfill in Oklahoma state to produce pipeline-quality renewable natural gas.

Transforming waste and air into sustainable heating projects

Climate action25 Jan 2024

Green Heat Network funding has been awarded to UK projects harnessing waste heat energy from industry and sewerage and low-carbon heat pump implementations.

AcceliGOV invites applications to pioneering urban pilots

Resilience16 Jan 2024

Leading Cities is inviting municipalities and private companies to apply for the pilot offerings designed to tackle distinct urban development challenges.

Aberdeen awarded £8.9m for community heat network

Climate action03 Jan 2024

The Torry Heat Network can supply up to 800 homes and a school and community hub with low-cost energy with heat supplied by an energy from waste plant.

2023 Call for Code competition winners announced

Climate action07 Dec 2023

Winning teams from Hexaware Technologies, Persistent, and the University of Sydney develop AI-powered solutions to help overcome sustainability challenges.

Cop28: Driving climate action in cities

Climate action07 Dec 2023

Initiatives announced on the Cop28 Multilevel Action, Urbanisation, Built Environment and Transport Day included tools to measure methane emissions and benefits of 15-minute cities.

City of Surprise chosen to pilot plastic waste solution

Smart waste05 Dec 2023

The city will pilot 3D print technology from Automedi, the 2022 QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge winner, to help reduce and transform plastic waste.

Canberra passes circular economy legislation

Smart waste25 Oct 2023

The new legislation will extend powers to ban other problematic, non-plastic products, following the ACT Government’s phase-out of certain single-use plastics.

Test in Tallinn welcomes more smart city innovation projects

Economic Development29 Sep 2023

Smart city projects from Argentina, South Korea and Finland have been chosen for the Test in Tallinn programme, which provides an urban testing environment.

Measuring the carbon impact of connected devices

Smart waste21 Sep 2023

Carbon IQ provides detailed measurement and insights on the carbon impact of connected devices, including refurbished devices, throughout their lifecycle.

How Exeter is turning plastic waste into benches

Smart waste03 Aug 2023

This pioneering collaborative project sees the waste plastics enter the circular economy rather than being sent to the energy-from-waste plant in the UK city.

Denver deploys smart city tech for solid waste and recycling

Smart waste14 Jun 2023

City and County of Denver’s entire fleet of more than 150 solid waste and recycling vehicles will make use of the technology to enhance residential services.

Tallinn launches smart waste sensor pilot

Smart waste30 May 2023

The project addresses the issue of the majority of waste containers being only half-full when emptied while up to 10 per cent of them are overflowing.

Atlanta enters smart city deal to drive public works ability

Smart waste15 May 2023

The agreement will put Rubicon’s smart city software at the heart of Atlanta’s Department of Public Works and will help its operations become fully digital.

How Taipei is planning a net zero future

Climate action13 Apr 2023

Dr Chen-yu Lee, director of Taipei Smart City Project Management Office, explains why climate action can’t exist in a silo and must cut across all city services.

Robotic ‘WasteShark’ launched in London

Smart waste14 Mar 2023

Battery-powered WasteShark can navigate up to 5km of water and collect up to 500kg of plastic and waste per day, without producing any noise or light pollution.

Rubicon rolls out smart waste services to more US cities

Smart waste06 Mar 2023

The company is helping the cities transition from manual processes to digital operations and balance waste and recycling routes to provide an equitable service.

Basque Country municipality joins zero waste cities’ line-up

Smart waste16 Feb 2023

Spanish city of Hernani’s waste-reducing initiatives have earned it accreditation from Zero Waste Europe and Mission Zero Academy’s certification programme.

Autonomous street sweeper launched in Shenzhen

Smart waste12 Jan 2023

Taoping’s solution was selected to help alleviate costly daily cleaning, while providing an attractive, much needed rest station for park patrons to use.

Mini announces global expansion of its Urban-X platform

Climate action20 Dec 2022

The new urban tech programme is an expansion of the platform that works to support transformative climate technology to solve cities’ toughest challenges.

Cologne deploys GeoAI for municipal wastewater management

Digital twins16 Dec 2022

Solution automatically detects changes in paved surfaces that affect drainage, enabling Cologne’s wastewater authority to calculate taxes more efficiently.

Open source tech recognised for boosting sustainability

Smart waste12 Dec 2022

The annual Call for Code challenge invited innovators across the globe to help accelerate sustainability and combat climate change with open source-powered technology.

Asus IoT and Media Broadcast partner for smart city solutions

4G and 5G02 Dec 2022

The global artificial intelligence of things specialist and Germany’s largest full-service provider will implement smart city applications across the country.

Barcelona and Munich pledge to become zero-waste cities

Smart waste24 Nov 2022

The cities have committed to Zero Waste Cities Certification, a European third-party assessed certification standard, developed by the Mission Zero Academy NGO.

Cop27: Funding to help African migrants build sustainable livelihoods

Cop2718 Nov 2022

The migrants and refugees’ award provides direct financial and technical support to six African cities addressing the needs of migrants and displaced people.

Cop27: Solutions guide aims to help cities reach net zero

Cop2715 Nov 2022

Guide addresses core issues by showing where actions can be taken across the value chains of five sectors that are closely interlinked with a city’s ecosystem.

Microeconomy startup wins smart city resilience challenge

Smart waste11 Nov 2022

Automedi, which converts plastic waste into community products using 3D printing, is named winner in the 2022 QBE AcceliCITY resilience challenge.

Cop27: Deal inked for Suez Canal waste-to-hydrogen project

Cop2707 Nov 2022

Green Planet for Sustainable Environmental Solutions has signed a feedstock deal with H2-Industries for the hydrogen production plant at East Port Said.

NYC jail complex set to transform into renewable energy hub

Batteries and renewables03 Nov 2022

Proposals call on the City to replace Rikers’ jail complex’s ‘noxious’ energy and waste infrastructure with a range of green- and equity-focused measures.

Talq boosts adoption of Smart City Protocol standard

News28 Oct 2022

Certifying their products according to Talq Consortium’s Smart City Protocol allows vendors to assure interoperability with products from other manufacturers.

Peachtree Corners awarded for smart city leadership

4G and 5G19 Oct 2022

Peachtree Corners and its Curiosity Lab have been recognised as one of the most advanced smart city environments in the world, serving as a model for the US.

Global leaders urged to take bold action on zero waste

Smart waste05 Oct 2022

According to the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, better waste management could cut waste sector emissions by 84 per cent as well as significantly reduce emissions in other sectors.

Spanish municipalities obtain zero waste certification

Smart waste22 Sep 2022

El Boalo, Cerceda, Mataelpino in Madrid and Torrelles de Llobregat in Catalonia have been awarded Zero Waste Cities Certification, a European standard evaluated by third parties.

Rubicon and Samsara team for smarter waste

Smart waste14 Sep 2022

The technology partnership will enable heavy-duty municipal fleet operations to optimise routes and citizen services via the cloud and maximise use of data.

Climate projects named as finalists in C40-Bloomberg awards

Climate action19 Aug 2022

The awards celebrate the most ambitious and impactful projects, spearheaded by mayors from around the world to tackle the global climate crisis.

Innovators help create new visions for Melbourne precinct

Planning and redevelopment26 Jul 2022

A dating-style app for buildings and a high-yield urban farm are among the bold ideas aiming to transform Fishermans Bend into Australia’s premier innovation hub.

Cities to adopt mayors’ challenge project to combat climate change

Climate action30 Jun 2022

Stockholm’s Biochar Project, which won Bloomberg’s challenge in 2014, is hailed as an example of how a great idea in one city can inspire positive climate action in cities around the world.

Neom to tackle water scarcity with desalination plant

Water29 Jun 2022

The plant, powered by 100 per cent renewable energy, seeks to create a sustainable water supply for residential, industrial, and commercial use on the Saudi metropolis, which is being built on a greenfield site.

Councils can derive £6 return on £1 spent on use of address and street data

Data management & software28 Jun 2022

A new report shows that widespread adoption and use of address and street data in UK local authorities could generate £384m savings over the period 2022-2026.

Waste-to-hydrogen plant planned for Suez greenfield site

Greenfield sites02 Jun 2022

The facility in East Port Said will produce clean hydrogen to power Egypt’s domestic energy transition and enable it to become an exporter of hydrogen and a major player in the hydrogen economy.

Cities boost sustainability by mapping consumption emissions

Climate action10 May 2022

Inventories will enable London and New York City to develop a suite of actions to incentivise more sustainable consumption in collaboration with people and businesses and pioneer new ways to measure emissions.

Wellington lays groundwork for circular economy road work trial

Resilience05 May 2022

The council-led project is using the untapped resource of unwanted clothing and textiles as a performance additive in asphalt on the New Zealand city’s roads.

City of Scranton signs three-year smart city partnership deal

Smart waste29 Apr 2022

Rubicon’s products to be installed in the City of Scranton’s entire solid waste and recycling fleet to digitise operations and use real-time data to drive greater efficiency.

Itron launches online marketplace for smart city solutions

Smart grids14 Apr 2022

Cities can explore field-proven and pilot-ready solutions from third parties and identify ways they can modernise infrastructure and better serve citizens and customers.

Automated waste ‘sharks’ tackle plastic pollution in UK port city

Smart waste29 Mar 2022

Plymouth City Council is using the remotely operated marine vehicles to “gobble up” plastic litter in the sea as part of the council’s Preventing Plastic Pollution project.

Japanese smart waste pilot converts to long-term agreement

Smart waste09 Feb 2022

A nationwide technology licensing agreement will mean that Rubicon Technologies can work with Odakyu Electric Railway Company to promote sustainable waste solutions across Japan.

5G and IoT technologies to smarten Australia’s waste trucks

Smart waste04 Feb 2022

An interconnected network of garbage trucks could be the new frontline in repairing local roads, thanks to a collaboration between Brimbank City Council in Victoria and academia.

Building a sustainable and resilient future: a tech-driven planSponsored by ST Engineering

Special Reports26 Jan 2022

How can cities and businesses plan for sustainability and resilience in the face of mass urbanisation, climate change and Covid-19? Is technology and innovation the answer?

Cornell urban tech hub updates proposals for ‘rebooting’ NYC

Regulation26 Jan 2022

The new report outlines a vision for urban tech in the city’s new administration including focusing on privacy and security, equity in the digital economy, and better management of the built environment.

Seoul announces plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050

Climate action20 Jan 2022

With the goal of reducing 30 per cent of greenhouse gases to build a city safe against climate crises, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched a comprehensive plan for action.

Smart waste company acquires route optimisation specialist

Smart waste14 Jan 2022

Rubicon Technologies’ acquisition of software and solutions company Civix will expand the smart waste company’s routing capabilities and help drive its growth into additional international markets.

Tech and telecoms companies team to progress smart cities in Saudi Arabia

Internet of Things04 Jan 2022

Tata Communications and Zain KSA are already working together on a smart street lighting solution for one of the key cities in the kingdom with smart waste and smart mobility also on the agenda.

Companies join forces for IoT-powered waste management collection

Smart waste17 Dec 2021

Partnership between Sensoneo and Birdz will allow companies to combine expertise to bring a complete smart waste solution to the international market.

Suzhou and Shenzhen: making waves with smart city strategySponsored by Huawei

Opinions15 Dec 2021

Wang Bin, smart city solution director at Huawei Enterprise Business Group, details how the implementation of new technology has helped transform the Chinese cities of Suzhou and Shenzhen into two of the world’s leading smart city environments.

US cities invited to take data-driven approach to littering

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