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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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Model Street – making cities togethericons_use
Nairobi, Kenya

Model Street – making cities together

A collaborative project supporting community-led design to improve public spaces.
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Culture for Future
Dresden, Germany

Culture for Future

Guidelines for sustainability in the cultural sector
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Engaging the long term unemployed by greening public spaces and through training
Zagreb, Croatia

Engaging the long term unemployed by greening public spaces and through training

Long term unemployed people work in the city’s public green spaces in exchange for education and training in fields which are in high demand in the local economy.
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Glasgow Green Wardens scheme: Greening the council and boosting employability
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Glasgow Green Wardens scheme: Greening the council and boosting employability

Glasgow gives employment opportunities in the green sector to people with a low employability profile through a traineeship scheme with the city council.
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VicHealth Food for All Program
Melbourne , Australia

VicHealth Food for All Program

Five year Food for All program involved nine Victorian Municipalities taking a lead to address food insecurity.
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e-sabha app
Galle, Sri Lanka

e-sabha app

Connecting Communities with Local Authorities and Government Agencies on a Single Platform.
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Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

Denneman

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Mirna Ashraf Ali
Paris, France

Mirna Ashraf Ali

Individual | Associate Programme Specialist
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Lima, Peru

Chuquitaype Juan

Individual | Consultant
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Robert Brears
Auckland, New Zealand

Robert Brears

Individual | Founder
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ANTONIOS KARVOUNIS
Athens, Greece

ANTONIOS KARVOUNIS

Individual | CIVIL SERVANT
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Anna Iafisco
Brussels, Belgium

Anna Iafisco

Individual | Policy Officer
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