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SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
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4th Industrial Revolution
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4th Industrial Revolution
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
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SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Being smart about smart cities: A governance roadmap for digital technologies
Cities looking to use 4IR tools will have to address challenges of accountability, restricting the misuse of technology and ensuring citizen privacy.
SDG 13: Climate Action
IKEA's digital chief on how tech can tackle COVID and the climate: Meet The Leader
Absorbing the e-commerce surge that COVID brought almost overnight was possible thanks in part to a digital transition already several years underway run by IKEA's first-ever Chief Digita...
Cities and Urbanization
How Amsterdam's youth - or Alpha generation - is reimagining the city's future
With a self-identified mission to save the planet, the ideas and aspirations of Generation Alpha are crucial in shaping sustainable cities – and should be consulted now.
Cities and Urbanization
Community land trusts: a solution to the global housing crisis
Allowing people to communally own land but retain individual ownership of their homes can help ensure access to adequate housing and protect public resources
Cities and Urbanization
How to improve urban health: Lessons from cities around the world
The many positives of cities can sometimes mask the huge health inequalities that exist within them. These places are tackling the issue and offering lessons for other cities.
Social Innovation
Small local innovators are highly effective at tackling big global issues. Here's why
We need to magnify the impact of highly effective local actors, to address today's big global issues.
Cities and Urbanization
How cities can make urban forests accessible
As urban forests are rolled out in cities across the world, Lorien Nesbitt argues that they must be accessible for everyone to avoid urban inequalities of the past.
India
How India can become a leader in sustainable aviation fuel
As aviation rebounds from COVID, sustainable fuel can have widespread environmental and economic benefits. Here's how and why India should scale up SAF.
Cities and Urbanization
In Nairobi, this informal settlement is changing how we adapt to floods
The Kibera Public Space Project has built a network of community-designed spaces to reduce flood risk, provide access to core services and generate income.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Nano tech could get zero-carbon energy from sea water
A new technique, blue energy, could enable the production of robust, high-performance membranes to harness sea water as a source of renewable energy.
Cities and Urbanization
A green reboot for cities: Strategies for post-COVID growth
It's predicted that building retrofits, low-carbon waste and water management, and green transport are all trillion-dollar opportunities for sustainable cities.
Sustainable Development
This proven strategy can reverse biodiversity loss and boost economies
From eco-zoning to bamboo, these approaches explain how natural resource management principles can reverse biodiversity’s rapid decline.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Spending time by the water to boost your mental health now comes on prescription
A new programme from the UK’s Mental Health Foundation will enable doctors to prescribe water-based activities to improve low moods and boost mental health.
Cities and Urbanization
Slaves to speed: Why we’d all benefit from ‘slow cities’
More time can be saved by slowing city transport than by speeding it up, as well as benefitting the health of people, economies and the planet.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Road crash deaths and injuries in the world's cities can be stopped. Here's how
Road crashes are the result of a systematic failure to sufficiently value safety as part of mobility.