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Milan: lessons in congestion charging
08/07/2013
Milan: lessons in congestion charging
A congestion charging scheme in the northern Italian city of Milan has reduced traffic and the associated air pollution in the centre of the city – but has also demonstrated the need to obtain public acceptance for such a scheme, and for transparency in relation to revenues raised from the...
Italy
'Clean and Cool' missions promote UK eco-entrepreneurs in major markets
30/09/2013
'Clean and Cool' missions promote UK eco-entrepreneurs in major markets
The United Kingdom is promoting its eco-innovative small and medium-sized companies through a series of The United Kingdom is promoting its eco-innovative small and medium-sized companies through a series of “Clean and Cool” missions that take entrepreneurs to explore the cleantech market...
United Kingdom
Manifesto maps out Europe's future bioeconomy
18/05/2016
Manifesto maps out Europe's future bioeconomy
A high-level conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands in mid-April, under the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the European Union, has published a manifesto that sets out a roadmap for the development of the bioeconomy in the EU. The manifesto defines the bioeconomy as: “those parts of the...
Netherlands
Perspective du secteur Ouest © PBA-Vectuel-Studiosezz
02/08/2018
Paris eco-district puts sustainability into practice
The future of urban planning might already be here, in the north west of Paris, on a 54 hectare site that used to be a railway yard behind Saint Lazare train station. A project to redevelop the site started in 2001. The intention was to create a village that would serve the 2012 Olympics, for which...
France

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