Europe’s green (blue) capital crowned
Oslo, the capital of Norway with a population of nearly 660,000, has won the European Green Capital Award for 2019 due to its commitment and actions to protect natural resources, reduce greenhouse…
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Year: 2017
A focused section of the long-running Mark and Focus publication record.
Transforming Toronto’s future
Urban areas account for 54% of the world’s population in 2014, yet cities account for 70-75% of natural resource consumption and contribute towards environmental degradation in areas far beyond their boundaries. At…
Singapore’s low-carbon, efficient future
With rising greenhouse gas emissions and increasing resource scarcity, governments around the world are implementing a range of policies to increase efficiency in production and resource use. However, rather than focus on…
Ontario building a low-carbon future
Many governments, at the city-, state- and national-level, have implemented technology challenges to spur the private sector in scaling-up game-changing green technologies that increase resource efficiency, lower water and energy usage and…
A smart Brussels sprouts up
With the global pace of urbanization unprecedented, cities around the world will need to become smart in how they reduce emissions, use resources efficiently and become resilient to extreme weather events. A…
A climate-ready city one drop at a time
Cities consume around 75% of the world’s energy and produce more that 76% of all carbon emissions. While cities are major contributors to climate change they are at the same time highly…
Pure Water, Pure Gold for San Diego
San Diego imports 85% of its water supply from the Colorado River and Northern California Bay Delta. Over the past 15 years, the cost of importing the water has tripled with the…
Stockholm’s world-class waste solutions
In the recently published Urban Water Atlas for Europe, [clickandtweet handle=”” hashtag=”” related=”” layout=”” position=””]Stockholm is rated as one of the leading cities in Europe in terms of wastewater treatment[/clickandtweet] and solid-waste…
The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a…
A future-proof wastewater resource plant
Traditionally, wastewater is seen as a burden that needs treating and disposing of. However, as demand for water grows and the quantity of wastewater produced increases, [clickandtweet handle=”” hashtag=”” related=”” layout=”” position=””]many…