One World – One Environment – One Network
Tokyo, Beijing and Singapore are the greenest commuter cities in the world, according to data insight company Kantar. Commuters in those three cities tend to walk or take public transport. Data insight company Kantar...
A new report from the International Energy Agency reveals that consumers are buying ever larger and less fuel-efficient SUVs. This trend is driving global carbon emissions. A forthcoming report from the International Energy Agency...
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have identified four different types of smart cities. Their findings could help city planners to develop more effective urban policies and plans. Smart cities use new information and communication...
Nearly half of all flights that people take to a tourist destination exceed an individual’s annual carbon mobility budget for all forms of transportation, finds a new study from the University of Texas at...
New data from real-world emissions testing shows that diesel cars emit up to 30% more nitrogen oxide at higher summer temperatures. Motorcycles are especially to blame. Diesel car emissions of nitrogen oxide increase sharply...
Shared bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters have the potential to replace over half of short-distance car trips in cities around the world, a new study finds. For its report Micromobility Potential in the US, UK...
FlixMobility, which operates Europe’s largest long-distance bus fleet under the FlixBus brand, is working to put fuel cell-powered coaches on the road in an effort to go climate neutral by 2030. FlixMobility has set...
The world’s largest all-electric ferry made its first commercial trip last week in southern Denmark. It is powered by a battery system with an unprecedented 4.3MWh capacity from Swiss energy storage company Leclanché. E-ferry...
Melbourne’s tram network is now running entirely on solar power thanks to offset certificates purchased from the newly opened Numurkah Solar Farm. The 128 MW Numurkah Solar Farm in the Australian State of Victoria...
The city of Rome is experimenting with a new way of incentivizing people to recycle plastic bottles: transit fare. For every bottle recycled, people receive five cents towards the cost of a public transport...
Google Maps now offers real-time bikeshare data in 24 cities around the world. More cities are on the way. Bike sharing is growing in popularity around the world, and there are now an estimated...
Germany registered 48,000 new electric vehicles in the first half of 2019, making it the third largest e-mobility market in the world – and now the largest in Europe. China and the USA remain...
Electric scooter sharing has become extremely popular in the last years, providing an environmentally friendly mode of transport in many major cities. But when viewed from a full life-cycle perspective, they may not be...
Volkswagen is entering the growing car sharing sector with a fleet of 1,500 e-Golf vehicles in Berlin. WeShare will later expand to Prague and to Hamburg. German automaker Volkswagen announced that it launched its...
CO2-neutral synthetic fuels could one day replace fossil jet fuels. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology recently had a breakthrough producing such a fuel using solar thermal energy. Aviation is one of the fastest...
Consumption-based emissions from nearly 100 of the world’s biggest cities represent 10 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research from C40 Cities. The new report, The Future of Urban Consumption...
Highways, parking lots and other paved surfaces represent the least sustainable development, right? Not always. Writing in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers found that many factors determine whether pavement...
Driverless taxis and automated private vehicles could result in more traffic on the roads, not less. This was the finding of a simulation for the city of Zurich conducted by ETH Zurich, contradicting previous...
Communities across the Greater Miami Area in southern Florida have launched a collaborative urban resilience strategy that addresses issues such as sea level rise, mobility and affordable housing. The Resilient305 Strategy is a collaboration...
German automaker Volkswagen has signed an agreement to test and develop smart mobility solutions in the Chinese megacity of Hefei. The partnership will focus in particular on autonomous driving solutions. The city of Hefei...
