The latest Urban Exchange brings experts together from India and the US to talk about the Urban Ocean programme, and how to tackle the scourge of plastic waste in urban waterways.
For smart cities to succeed, organisational silos must give way to a problem-solving and adaptive network of partners, believes Massimiliano Claps, team leader for the Future Cities Business at SAP
The Royal Academy of Engineering launches a £150m fellowship to fund 50 innovative projects tackling climate change, offering financial and non-financial support.
Under President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda, EPA offers grant assistance at no cost for communities to upgrade stormwater and sewer infrastructure.
The NREL will advise the CDA airport authority on environmentally sustainable initiatives for new passenger facilities planned through its O’Hare 21 project.
An automated, side-loading garbage truck and a new data-driven containerisation strategy mark the latest phase of New York City mayor Eric Adams’ war on trash.
The City of Enid public-private collaboration is the first municipally owned landfill in Oklahoma state to produce pipeline-quality renewable natural gas.
Green Heat Network funding has been awarded to UK projects harnessing waste heat energy from industry and sewerage and low-carbon heat pump implementations.
Leading Cities is inviting municipalities and private companies to apply for the pilot offerings designed to tackle distinct urban development challenges.
The Torry Heat Network can supply up to 800 homes and a school and community hub with low-cost energy with heat supplied by an energy from waste plant.
Winning teams from Hexaware Technologies, Persistent, and the University of Sydney develop AI-powered solutions to help overcome sustainability challenges.
Initiatives announced on the Cop28 Multilevel Action, Urbanisation, Built Environment and Transport Day included tools to measure methane emissions and benefits of 15-minute cities.
The city will pilot 3D print technology from Automedi, the 2022 QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge winner, to help reduce and transform plastic waste.
The new legislation will extend powers to ban other problematic, non-plastic products, following the ACT Government’s phase-out of certain single-use plastics.
Smart city projects from Argentina, South Korea and Finland have been chosen for the Test in Tallinn programme, which provides an urban testing environment.
Carbon IQ provides detailed measurement and insights on the carbon impact of connected devices, including refurbished devices, throughout their lifecycle.
This pioneering collaborative project sees the waste plastics enter the circular economy rather than being sent to the energy-from-waste plant in the UK city.
City and County of Denver’s entire fleet of more than 150 solid waste and recycling vehicles will make use of the technology to enhance residential services.
The agreement will put Rubicon’s smart city software at the heart of Atlanta’s Department of Public Works and will help its operations become fully digital.
Dr Chen-yu Lee, director of Taipei Smart City Project Management Office, explains why climate action can’t exist in a silo and must cut across all city services.
Battery-powered WasteShark can navigate up to 5km of water and collect up to 500kg of plastic and waste per day, without producing any noise or light pollution.
The company is helping the cities transition from manual processes to digital operations and balance waste and recycling routes to provide an equitable service.
Spanish city of Hernani’s waste-reducing initiatives have earned it accreditation from Zero Waste Europe and Mission Zero Academy’s certification programme.
Taoping’s solution was selected to help alleviate costly daily cleaning, while providing an attractive, much needed rest station for park patrons to use.
The new urban tech programme is an expansion of the platform that works to support transformative climate technology to solve cities’ toughest challenges.
Solution automatically detects changes in paved surfaces that affect drainage, enabling Cologne’s wastewater authority to calculate taxes more efficiently.
The annual Call for Code challenge invited innovators across the globe to help accelerate sustainability and combat climate change with open source-powered technology.
The global artificial intelligence of things specialist and Germany’s largest full-service provider will implement smart city applications across the country.
The cities have committed to Zero Waste Cities Certification, a European third-party assessed certification standard, developed by the Mission Zero Academy NGO.
The migrants and refugees’ award provides direct financial and technical support to six African cities addressing the needs of migrants and displaced people.
Guide addresses core issues by showing where actions can be taken across the value chains of five sectors that are closely interlinked with a city’s ecosystem.
Green Planet for Sustainable Environmental Solutions has signed a feedstock deal with H2-Industries for the hydrogen production plant at East Port Said.
Proposals call on the City to replace Rikers’ jail complex’s ‘noxious’ energy and waste infrastructure with a range of green- and equity-focused measures.
Certifying their products according to Talq Consortium’s Smart City Protocol allows vendors to assure interoperability with products from other manufacturers.
Peachtree Corners and its Curiosity Lab have been recognised as one of the most advanced smart city environments in the world, serving as a model for the US.
According to the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, better waste management could cut waste sector emissions by 84 per cent as well as significantly reduce emissions in other sectors.
El Boalo, Cerceda, Mataelpino in Madrid and Torrelles de Llobregat in Catalonia have been awarded Zero Waste Cities Certification, a European standard evaluated by third parties.
The technology partnership will enable heavy-duty municipal fleet operations to optimise routes and citizen services via the cloud and maximise use of data.
A dating-style app for buildings and a high-yield urban farm are among the bold ideas aiming to transform Fishermans Bend into Australia’s premier innovation hub.
Stockholm’s Biochar Project, which won Bloomberg’s challenge in 2014, is hailed as an example of how a great idea in one city can inspire positive climate action in cities around the world.
The plant, powered by 100 per cent renewable energy, seeks to create a sustainable water supply for residential, industrial, and commercial use on the Saudi metropolis, which is being built on a greenfield site.
A new report shows that widespread adoption and use of address and street data in UK local authorities could generate £384m savings over the period 2022-2026.
The facility in East Port Said will produce clean hydrogen to power Egypt’s domestic energy transition and enable it to become an exporter of hydrogen and a major player in the hydrogen economy.
Inventories will enable London and New York City to develop a suite of actions to incentivise more sustainable consumption in collaboration with people and businesses and pioneer new ways to measure emissions.
The council-led project is using the untapped resource of unwanted clothing and textiles as a performance additive in asphalt on the New Zealand city’s roads.
Rubicon’s products to be installed in the City of Scranton’s entire solid waste and recycling fleet to digitise operations and use real-time data to drive greater efficiency.
Cities can explore field-proven and pilot-ready solutions from third parties and identify ways they can modernise infrastructure and better serve citizens and customers.
Plymouth City Council is using the remotely operated marine vehicles to “gobble up” plastic litter in the sea as part of the council’s Preventing Plastic Pollution project.
A nationwide technology licensing agreement will mean that Rubicon Technologies can work with Odakyu Electric Railway Company to promote sustainable waste solutions across Japan.
An interconnected network of garbage trucks could be the new frontline in repairing local roads, thanks to a collaboration between Brimbank City Council in Victoria and academia.
How can cities and businesses plan for sustainability and resilience in the face of mass urbanisation, climate change and Covid-19? Is technology and innovation the answer?
The new report outlines a vision for urban tech in the city’s new administration including focusing on privacy and security, equity in the digital economy, and better management of the built environment.
With the goal of reducing 30 per cent of greenhouse gases to build a city safe against climate crises, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched a comprehensive plan for action.
Rubicon Technologies’ acquisition of software and solutions company Civix will expand the smart waste company’s routing capabilities and help drive its growth into additional international markets.
Tata Communications and Zain KSA are already working together on a smart street lighting solution for one of the key cities in the kingdom with smart waste and smart mobility also on the agenda.
Wang Bin, smart city solution director at Huawei Enterprise Business Group, details how the implementation of new technology has helped transform the Chinese cities of Suzhou and Shenzhen into two of the world’s leading smart city environments.
Litterati’s Analyse tool allows cities to take a data science approach to addressing the problem of litter by applying machine learning to photos of litter to develop a baseline of its composition.
A survey by Euroconsumers reveals that consumers think artificial intelligence can help cities to deliver services such as lighting, waste, public transport and traffic management more efficiently.
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