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  • Connected & Autonomous Cars Are Using More Power and Fuel

    A study published by researchers at the University of Michigan and the Ford Motor Innovation Center in February, shows that autonomous cars could have a substantial energy toll, effectively making them more polluting than current manually driven vehicles The technology installed in connected vehicles and the infrastructure — such as Vehicle-to-Everything technologies — require a significant amount of power to […]

  • Europe Will Lag Behind in 5G Adoption

    Despite the efforts of the European Commission, and the EU sponsored 5G Public Private Partnership (5GPPP), the initial large rollout of 5G networks will not happen in the old continent, but in markets such as China and the US, then in several Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea, and then finally in Europe. Visitors […]

  • Balearic government leans towards electric, as rental cars overrun islands

    The government of the Balearic Islands drafts new law that requires rental car companies to phase out fossil fuel vehicles and to switch to a 100% electric fleet by 2030. The new law, when enacted, will require rental car companies to increase the share of electric cars in their fleet by 10 percent a year starting […]

  • Top European Court Declares Uber is a Taxi Service

    Top European Court Declares Uber is a Taxi Service

    The ruling has major implications for on-demand transport services across the European Union.

  • C40 Launches Competition for Global Cities to a Sustainable Future

    15 of the world’s great cities launched an unprecedented global competition to drive carbon neutral and resilient urban regeneration. Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris and Chair of C40 C40’s Reinventing Cities initiative has already identified 46 underutilized spaces to redevelop, including several empty plots and abandoned buildings, a former airport, historical mansions, underused car parks, and […]

  • Cities Commit to become Emissions Neutral by 2050

    The mayors of 25 pioneering cities, representing 150 million citizens, have pledged to develop and begin implementing more ambitious climate action plans before the end of 2020 to deliver emissions neutral and climate resilient cities by 2050. These plans will ensure the cities deliver on their share of emissions reductions required to realize the ambition of […]

  • Brexit Continues & Puts Additional Pressure on UK Industry

    While formal Brexit negotiations are about to begin — after the British government, in March, triggered Article 50 of the European Treaty to leave the Union — British people and businesses are already feeling the effects on the road to fully disconnect from the EU The pro-Brexit campaign claimed that leaving the EU was necessary to stop unwanted immigration of […]

  • European Mayors Respond to Trump as he Announces Pullback from Paris Accord

    Donald Trump has announced that he will withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Paris Mayor and C40 Chair Anne Hidalgo and several other global C40 mayors have made statements reacting to the news. European Mayors (Clockwise): Raymond Johansen (Oslo), Karin Wanngård (Stockholm), Anne Hidalgo (Paris), Giuseppe Sala (Milan) “Climate change is real: it […]

  • When you live at 78ºN you become an expert in everything

    When you live at 78ºN you become an expert in everything

    Christin Kristoffersen, former mayor of Longyearbyen, talks about the challenges and adventures of daily life in the Arctic Circle, and the growing impact of climate change. By Zairon (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons “In the arctic we see the changes first,” Kristoffersen said at the first Smart Island World Congress in Majorca last month. Climate change […]

  • When the waters are rising…

    Kiribati’s former president Anote Tong faces climate change head on and sees hope, even as islands become an early warning system for the international community. For the island nations of the South Pacific, climate change is a reality that is already causing people to migrate. The rise in sea level has made some low-lying islands […]