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Glasgow, United Kingdom
OPEN Glasgow – City Data Hub
Glasgow’s City Data Hub is home to 400 datasets, published with support from 60 partner organisations. The data gives citizens and businesses insight into life in their city, and allows them to get more involved in decision making.
Utrecht, Netherlands
City talks on sustainable energy: the silent ma...
Utrecht initiated a democratic experiment to share and broaden responsibility for creating an energy plan to help it become climate neutral by 2030.
Oslo, Norway
Oslo’s Traffic Agent app - Game to improve road...
Oslo has turned to mobile technology to tackle traffic security issues affecting parents’ willingness to let their children walk to school. Its pioneering app, ‘The Traffic Agent’, provides child’s eye feedback to enable improved road maintenance and infrastructure planning.
The Hague, Netherlands
Sustainability in The Hague neighbourhoods; par...
The Hague is harnessing the commitment, time and skills of citizens to help achieve its goal of becoming climate neutral by 2040. Practical support and grants for cooperative action at grassroots level are turning good ideas into reality across the city.
Dortmund, Germany
Masterplan for Energy Transition
Dortmund’s Masterplan for Energy Transition brings all sorts of stakeholders together to develop a vision for the city’s energy future.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Interactive energy classification map
An innovative interactive energy map lets Vilnius citizens access and compare energy performance data for every apartment block in the city, online.
Oslo, Norway
The electric vehicle capital
With 60% of emissions in Oslo coming from the transport sector, encouraging people to use electric vehicles (EVs) has the potential to make a real difference. In 2008, Oslo adopted a ten-point plan to reduce CO2 emissions, to which the large scale introduction of EVs plays a big part.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Auld but not Reekie – transforming transport en...
Edinburgh's municipal bus company, Lothian Buses, is going a long way to combat this image with ‘Auld but not Reekie’, an initiative that by the end of 2014 will see 65 hybrid buses in service and 45 buses retrofitted with low emissions exhausts.
Christchurch, New Zealand
Transitional City Programme
A transitional city programme includes support for recovery after earthquakes in three key areas: social, sense of place and business. The programme also contains elements for long-term recovery such as testing new ideas, enhancing community resilience and creating a new identity for the city.