Nature-based solutions, such as restoring wetlands in flood-prone areas or green infrastructure to reduce heat island effects in cities, need to be scaled up and expanded to help Europe...
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The world’s cities face the intense, overlapping challenges of environmental and demographic change, which are expected to grow over the coming decades. It is estimated that by 2050, 70...
Citizen Science: an essential ally for sustainable cities
“Financing sustainable urban future for all”
In a world where cities are growing and expanding at an unprecedented rate, it becomes increasingly clear that we must make...
Urban sustainability: Vilnius, Viladecans and Treviso win 2025 European Green City awards
We are pleased to announce that on 5 October at 18:00 (EEST, that is 17:00 Brussels time), the winners will be revealed during a festive ceremony in Kultuurikatel in Tallinn...
Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of the World Habitat Day - 2 October 2023
Five European cities are showing the way to resilience and sustainability as they enter the final stage of the European Green Capital and Green Leaf Awards. There is rising...
Today, the Commission is announcing 15 winners of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Prizes 2023 and 14 selected projects, benefitting from EUR 65 million of investments from the first...
The cooling effect of trees is well known, but no study has so far aimed to quantify how many premature deaths might be prevented through...