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Join our webinar: Cities are getting hotter

Join our webinar: Cities are getting hotter

How can cities prepare for more extreme heat? Join USE and Dr Sara Meerow for a practical webinar on seven heat resilience planning principles, with examples from leading cities and tools to support urban heat planning.
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How to protect citizens from the next heat-wave?

How to protect citizens from the next heat-wave?

Heat waves place a lot of citizens at risk of health issues. Barcelona's climate shelter network shows how cities can protect the most vulnerable, using infrastructure they already have.
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Barcelona's Climate Shelters

Barcelona's Climate Shelters

Barcelona has developed a citywide network of climate shelters to protect residents from extreme heat in summer and cold in winter by taking advantage of already existing public and private infrastructure.
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Penang Nature-Based Climate Adaptation Programme
Penang, Malaysia

Penang Nature-Based Climate Adaptation Programme

A comprehensive and collaborative approach, addressing the environmental and social dimensions of climate change
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La Taula per a la Millora Urbana – TxMU
Barcelona (ciudad), Spain

La Taula per a la Millora Urbana – TxMU

The project improves living conditions for inhabitants affected in those urban areas requiring special attention.
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Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

Community Land Trusts (CLTB)

An alternative option to affordable homeownership for people on low incomes
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Bogotá, Colombia

Greening Bogotá

Implementing urban agriculture practices to tackle food insecurity
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Tallinn, Estonia

Free Public Transport in Tallinn

In January 2013 the capital of Estonia made a shift to free public transport and became the world's largest city to offer free transit for all its residents.
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Utrecht, Netherlands

Utrecht Smart Solar Charging project

The city of Utrecht has capitalised on the high take-up by residents of electric cars and solar panels to develop the Smart Solar Charging project.
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Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Córdoba
Cordoba, Argentina

Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Córdoba

Institution | Secretaría de Planeamiento, Modernización y Relaciones Internacionales
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Alexandra Endara
La Paz, Bolivia

Alexandra Endara

Individual | Consultant
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Melisa Soledad Wilkinson
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Melisa Soledad Wilkinson

Individual | Operative Manager of New Technologies
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Manu Fernandez
Bilbao, Spain

Manu Fernandez

Individual | Consultant
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Grand Paris, France

Michaël Gaudin

Individual | Student @ Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris
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Barcelona (ciudad), Spain

Laura Trujillo

Individual | Officer
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