Greenwashing: making an unsustainable business look more environmentally friendly, without actually making any meaningful changes that would cut pollution and emissions.
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For Immediate Release January 12, 2021 Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance’s Initiative Dramatically Increases Uptake of Bio-based Materials, Advocating City, National and EU-Level Policy Adoption Today, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) announced an ambitious new effort to reduce embodied carbon and increase the uptake of bio-based materials in Europe’s built environment. CNCA’s launch illustrates the cutting edge of decarbonization efforts across Europe’s leading green cities. CNCA’s initiative – funded by a two million euro grant from the Laudes Foundation – will foster the rapid and widespread adoption of low-carbon building materials and policies across city and national governments in Europe. The project will be implemented in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Eurocities and Bionova. As part of its three-year […]
Glasgow’s Climate Action Story By Gavin Slater, Head of Sustainability, Neighbourhoods & Sustainability, Glasgow City Council The City of Glasgow has experienced constant change and evolution. In 1765, James Watt, while walking on Glasgow Green, conceived of the separate condenser to the steam engine and, thus, set about an acceleration of the evolution of the industrial age and inadvertently enabled the acceleration of climate change. In the years that followed, Glasgow became an industrial powerhouse. The ripples from that one moment in time here in Glasgow lapped the shores of the entire world, changing it just as much as it transformed us. Since then we have generated new ways of urban living, but with them has come the generation of the greenhouse gases that have […]