City Solutions for a Living Planet

WWF's City Solutions are cases where we show how cities can lead the way, with examples from our One Planet City Challenge. New articles will be published throughout the spring 2019 and you find the new cases right under the map below. For further assets like our 2017 handbook scroll down.  

Enjoy reading our globally relevant solutions' cases from last year's participants in the One Planet City Challenge.

Tokyo – Getting around in the world’s largest metropolis

Cape Town – Avoiding “Day Zero”

Santa Monica – Solar panels on all home roofs - Lessons learned from the pilot for the state of California

Vancouver – How Vancouver has pioneered the Zero Emission Building Plan

Lund – How to make 3 of 4 trips sustainable in a commuter region

Guatemala city – A jungle in the city, instead of just urban greenery

Pune – redesigning the city and changing minds

Uppsala – climate-positive attitude

City Solutions Learning Cases

The aim of the City solutions project is to support learning about, and action toward sustainable cities. Our vision is a future where we all live well within the capacity of one living planet. In this project, WWF has studied and catalogued real examples of how cities are approaching the need to minimize their ecological footprints and protect ecosystem services and biodiversity. We can think of no better motivator than the inspiring examples provided by these learning cases, which highlight how cities are working, in real life and in real time, to reduce their footprints and protect biodiversity and ecosystem services. 

For more inspiration see the full version of the Urban Green on YouTube. We hope you’ll watch, enjoy and share!