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The built environment’s Scope 3 emissions conundrum

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Greenwich’s smart city benchmarking toolkit for adaptability and resilience

Opinions01 Oct 2019

Allan Mayo, Smart City Strategist, DG Cities, outlines how DG Cities is using an evidence-based tool to ensure its smart city strategy has resilience and adaptability at the core. Other cities could replicate the methodology.

Circular economy will replace wasteful linear one by 2029

News01 Oct 2019

Sustainability officers must put in place new models and encourage the continuous reuse of materials to minimise waste and the demand for additional natural resource consumption.

London mayor addresses mobile "not spots"

News30 Sep 2019

A new standard agreement for commercial landlords and public property owners is designed to speed up the process which allows mobile providers access to rooftops and other sites to install kit.

No city is fully prepared for the disruption of AI

News27 Sep 2019

A new ranking reveals that Singapore, London and New York are marginally better prepared but governments and private sector institutions around the world need to do more.

Deerfield Beach launches city-wide energy efficiency project

News27 Sep 2019

The Florida city will work with Siemens on a 17-year infrastructure improvement project which will also increase the use of alternative energy sources.

Stirling on track to be CityFibre's first 'Gigabit City' by mid-2020

News25 Sep 2019

The CityFibre network in Stirling will serve as a backbone for the future deployment of 5G and a host of Internet of Things and smart city applications.

Cities first: How to end the shared mobility ‘tug of war’

Opinions25 Sep 2019

Scott Shepard, Chief Commercial Officer, Free2Move, highlights lessons learned in Europe and North America about how to succeed with shared mobility so that cities can leverage the best from mobility innovations and investments.

Mayor calls upon national governments to join cities in climate action

News24 Sep 2019

At the conclusion of the UN Climate Action Summit, chair of C40 and mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, urged all nation states to step up and commit to science-based targets.

A smart city is an interoperable city

Opinions24 Sep 2019

Gianni Minetti, CEO, Paradox Engineering, makes the case for why interoperability is crucial in smart cities.

San Diego progresses green energy transition

News23 Sep 2019

The US city has approved proposals to create a joint-powers entity with cities across the region to lower energy costs and reach 100 per cent renewable energy by 2035.

London to launch green energy company

News23 Sep 2019

Partnership is part of the mayor’s wider Energy for Londoners programme, which aims to make London’s homes warm, healthy and affordable and to supply more local clean energy.

The data gaps stopping cities tackling critical challenges

News23 Sep 2019

The Evidence Map is a free online interactive tool that tracks the availability and characteristics of publicly available, policy relevant-data in G20 countries.

Rail needs to be bold – it starts and ends with the customer

News19 Sep 2019

UK rail must focus on outcomes and building a new kind of relationship with customers, driven by data.

Shanghai Pudong airport begins operation of automated metro

News17 Sep 2019

The passenger rapid transit system connects two existing terminals and satellite halls and the line is expected to shuttle up to 250,000 passengers per day.

Advisory panel issues response to Sidewalks Labs' Quayside master plan

News13 Sep 2019

Comments from Waterfront Toronto’s Digital Strategy Advisory Panel include “frustratingly abstract” and “unwieldy and repetitive”.

Creating connected infrastructure to power MaaS

Opinions12 Sep 2019

Fujitsu’s Rabih Arzouni explores how public bodies and private companies must work together to ensure the right infrastructure is in place to support MaaS and other transport advances.

Rockefeller Foundation awards $3.7m to boost opportunity zones initiative

News10 Sep 2019

Initiative aims to help cities build a pipeline of projects and small business investments that move beyond the early stages of planning and attract private investment in economically distressed areas.

Glasgow unveils high-tech tower blocks

News09 Sep 2019

A public-private project has equipped the 20-storey building in the Scottish city with IoT technology, free fibre-optic broadband and will provide digital inclusion classes.

National Climate Bank could mobilise $1 trillion for clean energy

News06 Sep 2019

The Coalition for Green Capital has published a white paper illustrating how, with just $35bn capitalisation, the bank could raise the funds from public and private investment.

Smart City Expo Atlanta announces top speakers

News04 Sep 2019

The Expo aims to redefine what it means to be a smart city and will convene mayors, CEOs, CIOs and innovators to discuss issues and share knowledge.

Brighton bus shelter becomes home to upcycled living roof

News04 Sep 2019

The project is one of a series from out-of-home media owner, Clear Channel, that seeks to make a difference and benefit the environment, as well as local communities.

Sidewalk Labs launches advanced infrastructure partnership

News03 Sep 2019

Sidewalk Labs and its parent company Alphabet are partnering with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to form a spin-out company focusing on next-generation infrastructure.

Plymouth City Council trials vehicle-to-grid for its EV fleet

News03 Sep 2019

The UK council, which has set a goal of being carbon neutral, is partnering with E-Flex, a demonstration project led by Cisco.

Tokyo holds position as safest city in the world

News02 Sep 2019

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Safe Cities Index 2019 ranks 60 cities across 57 indicators covering digital, health, infrastructure and personal security.

Reducing the financial risk of smart cities

Opinions28 Aug 2019

Maggie Shillington, IHS Markit, outlines how to create a multi-stream financing model to fund smart city initiatives.

Columbus: first US city to meet ozone compliance rules

News27 Aug 2019

Several federal regulations pertaining to fuel and motor vehicle emission standards decreased emissions to help the area achieve the standard.

Southern Africa establishes Climate Finance Facility

News26 Aug 2019

It follows a year-long process between the Development Bank of Southern Africa and the Green Climate Fund and aims to accelerate climate initiatives in the region.

Smart security within the intelligent city

Opinions23 Aug 2019

Steven Kenny, Axis Communications, reflects on the challenges that influence the development of the smart city.

Nordic CEOs seek to collaborate with governments on climate action

People and Skills legacy22 Aug 2019

The CEOs alliance presented its vision for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through greater public-private sector collaboration.

Columbus implements single payment platform across different mobility services

News21 Aug 2019

Siemens Mobility and Bytemark are working with the Ohio city to integrate new technology into the Smart Columbus Operating System for a frictionless customer experience.

Smart city cybersecurity “woefully underfunded and vulnerable to attack”

News20 Aug 2019

Lack of investment in cybersecurity could jeopardise the core goals of smart cities, warns ABI Research.

Dubai approves three blockchain initiatives

News20 Aug 2019

Dubai Future Council for Blockchain event brought together various government departments and private companies with a vested interest in smart city technologies.

New smart city roles for telcos

Opinions19 Aug 2019

Tampere awarded funding for smart security project

News19 Aug 2019

The funding will help to finance solutions as part of the Finnish region’s Smart Urban Security and Event Resilience Project such as sensor data integration and smart lighting.

Carinthia switches on 5G in its flagship smart region

News14 Aug 2019

The Austrian state is also showcasing a range of smart applications including using virtual reality for tourism and a smart beehive that monitors the environment.

Helsinki launches local sustainability programme

News13 Aug 2019

Think Sustainably aims to help individuals make informed lifestyle and business decisions and comes in response to citizen concern about climate change.

Athens implements smart waste collection

News13 Aug 2019

Vodafone Innovus has equipped bin lorries serving the Commercial Triangle area with sensors that identify and contact businesses when the vehicle is passing.

Russia’s first 5G zone launched in Moscow

News12 Aug 2019

The pilot area will be used to demo and test several applications.

The telco's critical role in smart cities

Opinions12 Aug 2019

Ahead of his participation in the Smart IoT Connect event (a joint event between Smart Cities World and sister publication, Mobile Europe), Dimitrios Spiliopoulos IoT Sales Enablement, O2 (Telefónica UK) shares his insights on how telcos and cities can better work together.

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