The city of Barcelona in Spain has begun a €100m (~USD$106m) school climate control plan, called The Pla Escola Clima Barcelona. The project seeks to mitigate the effects of climate change in schools – particularly Read More
Preliminary results are in from the community-wide cool pavement experiment that has been taking place in the north Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacoima. In July of 2022, the city of Los Angeles partnered with roofing Read More
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, England, has announced the launch of a £500m (~US$635m) fund to help organizations achieve net zero by the year 2030. The Green Finance Fund will support projects delivering benefits Read More
The City Council of Wellington, New Zealand has approved an initiative to build a digital map recording where all of the underground pipes and cables are beneath the city’s roads and walkways. The Wellington Underground Read More
The Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) Action Fund helps sponsor data-based projects aimed at helping local governments to improve environmental quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and adapt to the effects of climate change. It recently Read More
The City of Philadelphia’s Parks & Recreation department recently published ‘Growing from the Root’ – a city-wide urban agriculture plan. The plan – the first of its kind for the city – was created with Read More
The city of Melbourne, Australia – in a bid to strengthen its climate resilience – is developing a tool to map heat hazards and strengthen its responses to extreme heat events. The heat risk platform Read More
The city of Dresden in Germany has created new digital tools with the aim of helping its private residents adopt solar energy. Two interactive maps of the city have been published – one 3D and Read More
The small town of Adjuntas in Puerto Rico, when faced with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, came up with a novel plan for providing electricity. As an emergency measure, small stores near its Read More
New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently appointed the city’s first Chief Public Realm Officer. Ya-Ting Liu will coordinate across city government, community organizations and the private sector to create “extraordinary public spaces” with the Read More
© Copyright 2021 Smart Cities Connect, Produced by TechConnect