The latest Urban Exchange welcomes Kathy Oldham, Chief Resilience Officer, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Will Cavendish, Global Digital Services Leader, Arup who discuss how cities can build digital resilience.
The latest Urban Exchange welcomes Robert van Asten, Deputy Mayor and Alderman for Urban Development, Strategy and Europe for The Hague, to discuss the city’s water resilience strategy.
Roadmap of sustainability courses to benefit learners across communities underrepresented in technology and address market need for green and technology skills.
Study argues there is a clear need for governments and businesses to cooperate internationally to make expansion of low carbon energy as efficient as possible.
A report by Itron provides insights from utilities on building the future energy grid in the US and reveals that public demand is driving the energy transition.
Green Energy City in Minecraft from the InnoEnergy Skills Institute blends gamification with green energy education to become a green skills learning resource.
Eco Wave Power’s technology turns ocean and sea waves into green electricity and will be located at the AltaSea innovation campus at the US’ busiest seaport.
Bristol City Council is entering a 20-year joint venture that will enable it to rapidly increase the scale and pace of investment in low carbon energy infrastructure.
Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank commit to financing renewable projects in the public and private sectors.
As part of the collaboration, CLP and Venturous will explore business development opportunities and potential investments in smart energy technologies in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao GBA.
Once connected, the EWP-EDF One Project will represent the first time in the country’s history that electricity produced by the power of waves will be transmitted to Israel’s national electric grid.
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet aims to accelerate investment in green energy transitions and renewable power solutions to tackle “three profound human problems simultaneously”.
The Port of Tyne in the north-east of England has been assessing current and future energy requirements in line with Tyne 2050’s roadmaps for it to become carbon neutral by 2030, and all-electric by 2040.
Report sets out to demonstrate how cities can be “critical drivers” of solutions for the multiple short-term challenges created by Covid-19 as well as emerging long-term challenges of climate change.
EnergyTag, which brings together major names in the technology and energy sector, is developing an industry standard to deliver hourly certificates showing users where energy is coming from.
The companies claim that their end-to-end approach reduces the time taken for renewable energy asset owners to acquire Recs, from three months to less than a week.
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.
Nesta wants to work with cities around the world to identify and scale up innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build “thriving, inclusive, resilient communities”.
The new Energy Launchpad International programme, drawing on technical energy system expertise, will provide access to incubation and acceleration support for a “virtual mission” to India and Thailand.
In a statement released today, the C40 Global Mayors Covid-19 Recovery Task Force warned that a “high-carbon recovery” will accelerate climate breakdown, endanger public health, cost lives and sacrifice jobs.
Wildpoldsried will be the focus for the demo phase of a research project by Siemens, the regional utility Allgäuer Überlandwerk and partners to help develop a local energy marketplace.
By applying advanced models, rules and learning to weather forecast, energy demand, pricing, and device data, Veritone Energy helps utilities automatically predict the optimal energy supply mix.
Research carried out by EIT InnoEnergy also found that customer readiness for new technology and access to partnering organisations for R&D areas requires more action.
The cities and regions are committed to act as ambassadors and champion a circular economy that leads to a resource-efficient, low-carbon and socially responsible society.
The new office will help entrepreneurs develop their innovations and reduce time to market by providing direct access to more than 500 industrial partners in its ecosystem.
By confirming their undertaking, the mayors of Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro come together with a coalition of 35 other city mayors that aim to ensure clean air for some 150 million people.
Located on Terceira, the second biggest island in terms of electrical consumption of the Azores archipelago, the system will enable an increased share of renewable energy usage.
The challenge has been set up to find innovative new solutions to urban heating that go beyond burning fossil fuels and biomass to help the city meet its goal to be carbon-neutral by 2035.
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.
Ashden is calling for more backing for sustainable solutions to help struggling communities around the world build back better and combat the duel impact of Covid-19 and climate change.
The C40 Cities network has announced its agenda for delivering a sustainable and equitable recovery plan from the pandemic and calls for support for the vision from national government.
Skellefteå Kraft and EIT InnoEnergy are offering applicants from across Europe the opportunity to grow their businesses in Sweden as part of a green economic recovery post-Covid-19.
The study by British Business Energy examines cities across the globe to determine which offer the best and worst options for the eco-conscious worker.
Unprecedented disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic risks cancelling out recent progress unless there is urgent action at national, regional and global levels.
It is comprised of member cities and experts from the former 100 Resilient Cities programme and supports a community of resilience practitioners in 98 cities and 40 countries.
Microgrids transform urban energy into localised, efficient, resilient and sustainable systems, and investment in them will be critical to the future operation of the energy system, says Ian Lloyd, Strategic Growth Manager, Siemens.
An invitation is open to start-ups worldwide in areas including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy-efficiency and heat and transport to solve the decarbonisation challenge.
The project is set to showcase renewable energy, autonomous vehicles, AI, augmented reality, robotics, ’super-trees’ and self-healing concrete structures.
The Finnish capital wants to find a way of replacing coal with carbon-neutral and low-biomass solutions, and is challenging other cities to join the quest.