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Learn more about urban solutions and cities-related projects, websites, and materials from around the world.
Case studies
Case studies
Organisations
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- UN-Habitat
- Man and the Biosphere Programme
- Making Cities Resilient
- Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Growing Greener Cities
- Resource Centers on Urban Agriculture & Food Security (RUAF)
- European Green Capital
- Worldwatch Institute
- Earth Policy Institute
- City Mayors
- CDP Cities
- Clinton Climate Initiative
- IBM Smarter Cities
- The Climate Group
- Connected Urban Development
- Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP)
- Victoria Transport Policy Institute
- National Complete Streets Coalition
- Copenhagenize
- Smart Planet
- Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21)
- Energy Cities
- U.S. Green Building Council
- World Green Building Council
- International Passive House Association
- The Green Roof Industry Resource Portal
- Bioregional
- Fairtrade Towns
- Global Footprint Network
- Resources and Energy Analysis Programme (REAP)
- One Planet Economy Network (OPEN)
- European Network of Living Labs
- Smarter Cities
- Smart Growth Online
- Stockholm International Water Institute
- Grist
- Sustainable Cities Collective
- Ecocity Builders
- Ecovillages Newsletter
- Global Ecovillage Network
- Treehugger
- Resurgence
- The Ecologist
- Urban Ecology
Resources
- Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
- Global Report on Human Settlements 2009: Planning Sustainable Cities
- Global Report on Human Settlements 2011: Cities and Climate Change
- Trends in Sustainable Development 2010-2011 – Towards Sustainable Consumption and Production
- What is the Smart Grid?
- Smart Grid Projects in Europe: lessons learned and current developments
- City2020: Final Report - Support to the development of an ICT driven transition strategy to the Low Carbon City
- Smart 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age
- Information Marketplaces: The New Economics of Cities
- China Clean Revolution Report III: Low Carbon Development in Cities
- China Clean Revolution Report IV: Financing China's Low Carbon Growth
- Powering China’s Development: The Role of Renewable Energy
- Reinventing the City: Three Prerequisites for Greening Urban Infrastructures
- Renewables 2011 Global Status Report
- Global Status Report on Local Renewable Energy Policies
- Local Renewables Web Portal
- Cities, towns & renewable energy: yes in my front yard
- Sunshot Initiative
- Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World
- International Journal of Community Currency Research
- How to put nature into our neighbourhoods: application of Low Impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD) principles, with a biodiversity focus, for New Zealand developers and homeowners
- Green Roof – Augustenborgs Botanical Roof Garden, What is a Green Roof?
- FAO: Livestock's Long Shadow – environmental issues and options
- Priority products and materials: assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production
- Green and Blue Space – Adaptation for Urban Areas and Eco Towns
- Big Cities, Big Water, Big Challenges: Water in an Urbanizing World
- Megastress for megacities
- Payment for Environmental Services: First Global Inventory of Schemes Provisioning Water for Cities
- Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities: Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities 2010
- Farmers Markets and Local Food Marketing
- Public Procurement as a tool for promoting more Sustainable Consumption and Production patterns
- United Nations Global Marketplace
- A City-Wide Approach to Carbon Finance, Carbon Partnership Facility Innovation Series
