The City of Copenhagen's (Denmark) strategy and approach to sustainable procurement has been profiled in the September edition of the GPP News Alert, detailing how the city set up a set up a unit on Green Public Procurement (GPP) to help it meet its ambitious goal of being the world's first carbon neutral capital city. The unit works with other administrative and strategic procurement units to help move the market in a climate friendly direction.

The ICLEI Member City has been a Procura+ Participant since 2015 and is the most populous city in Denmark. Since 2005, CO2 emissions in Copenhagen have fallen by 38 percent, mainly due to sustainable measures on building renovation works, energy savings achieved in the private sector, and the implementation of anti-waste strategies.

The city uses its purchasing actions to achieve strategic goals, such as requiring that packaging originates from reused materials, procuring alternative fuel or zero emission vehicles, increasing the number of organic public sector meals, and so on.

For more information, read the GPP News Alert case study or visit the Copenhagen Procura+ Profile.Image copyright: Image (Flickr) by "Thomas Rousing", licensed under CC BY 2.0 more   7 October 2016 Over 100 short video interviews on urban resilience publishedA resilient city is not only made up of bricks and mortar, but of flexible systems of elements working together. This complexity has been creatively visualised online in an interactive map of short video clips. As part of RAMSES, a European-funded research project on climate impacts and adaptation strategies for cities, Climate Media Factory has condensed scientific research into a compilation of over 100 short interview sequences from 33 climate change adaptation and resilience experts.

Users can define their own way of navigating the "On Urban Resilience" platform by auto-playing videos, searching by keyword or branching off into a topic-specific strand of clips to learn more in greater detail. "On Urban Resilience" is designed to help cities to find information on climate change impacts and to explore their options for adapting to climate change and for building city resilience. Contributions by experts on adaptation and resilience from across Europe cover topics such as social adaptation, local climate change models, political commitments and how to start an adaptation strategy in cities.

Frans Berkhout of King's College London, said: "Cities are competing more and more in terms of their climate resilience. These are risks that are real, they're tangible, investors know about them, they care about them, and therefore cities need to wake up and start to transform their infrastructures in a climate resilient way." "On Urban Resilience" is available online for free at http://on-urban-resilience.eu/.

For more information, visit the RAMSES website.Image copyright: Image (Flickr) by "Andrew and Annemarie", licensed under CC BY 2.0 more

» Publication Date: 10/10/2016

» Source: Iclei Europe

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