Economy and finance

Steve Turner, director of the UK Cities Climate Investment Commission (CCIC), explains how the commission is seeking to close the funding gap in the UK to enable crucial green projects to go ahead, and considers the ways the commission’s model could be scaled internationally.   The UK CICC wants to use innovative new approaches for […]

The projects, spread across 13 countries, aim to create more sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful spaces in locations in the EU and will involve citizens in the green transition at the local level.   Stavanger in Norway is one of the cities that features in the shortlisted projects Smart cities, building renovation, circularity and urban and […]

A drone flight over the City of Winchester witnessed the simultaneous integration and operation of a range of unmanned aerial systems technologies from a coalition of public and private sector providers.   Tynan said the Fly-In showed what is possible through public-private partnerships A demonstration involving small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) being operated by multiple […]

The sustainable energy innovation engine will work with Banco Santander to support innovation in green energy across Europe and accelerate the development of its portfolio of start-ups.   InnoEnergy’s portfolio companies could help to save 1.1G tons of CO2e annually by 2030 The European sustainable energy innovation engine EIT InnoEnergy has signed an agreement with […]

The City Plan will guide the council’s current and future plans including a focus on climate action, greening of streets, its parklands management strategy, infrastructure and asset maintenance plans.   Plan will consider whether the CBD will be the workforce base for the next 20 years The City of Adelaide has released an updated City […]

Built on Argaleo’s scalable digital twin platform, the Smart City Monitor provides insight into inner city visitor and traffic flows and also provides statistics in areas such as air quality.     Platform combines location and business intelligence, AI and real-time data   A digital twin city dashboard, being developed by a Dutch consortium of […]

The information gathered will be used to detect pollution hotspots and provide a database of environmental analytics to help protect the health of Miami’s inhabitants.   The air quality network aligns with other Miami initiatives to become a green city   The City of Miami, Florida, has partnered with PlanetWatch to deploy an air quality […]

Croydon, in south London, will be the first borough in the UK to benefit from a private public partnership, which will reportedly generate more than £6.75m in concession revenue. One of the bus shelters which will be installed and operated by Valo Smart City   Croydon Council has awarded a 10-year concession contract to provide […]

Both cities will work closely together on new digital cooperation projects and policy sandboxes to create new economic opportunities for people and businesses.     Shenzhen and Singapore are building a digital bridge of connectivity     Singapore’s Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) have announced four new memorandum […]