Originally posted at Atlantic Cities’ Blogactiv (October 2017) Written at the request of the publishers The title of the book “Cool Cities”, written by Benjamin Barber, plays with the different dimensions of climate change that can be tackled at local level and even the mood for doing it. It is thus, an integrated metaphor of …
Category: Urban Diplomacy
Searching for Synergies on Climate Change Strategies
Initially published by YPLD and republished in Atlantic Cities’ blog (September 2014) Many studies affirm the importance of the local level when tackling climate change. Cities concentrate the most part of the population, the energy consumption and the pollution due to transports. Thus, local authorities are the best placed to find significant tools to reduce the …
No city is an island
Originally posted in Atlantic Cities’ blog (August 2014) Cooperation has become, in EU jargon, an unavoidable word. At the same time, together with the progression made by cohesion policy, the urban dimension has turned the hottest point in the European agenda. So even if the crisis makes individual strategies more tempting, the time has come …