Trees are a natural way to cool Europe’s increasingly hot cities, but as a standoff in Vienna illustrates, they’re not always welcome.Trees are a natural way to cool Europe’s increasingly hot cities, but as a standoff in Vienna illustrates, they’re not always welcome.

Europe’s Urban Dilemma: Saving the Past From a Warming Future

Every tourist in Vienna is at some point directed to Michaelerplatz, a circular cobblestone plaza in the heart of the Austrian capital. Framed by a medieval church, baroque buildings and the modernist...

Inside Colombia's Ambitious Plan for Quitting Fossil Fuels - Bloomberg

Colombia Is Quitting Fossil Fuels. Can It Convince Other Countries?

“We have to get out of that dependency and we have to do it fast,” Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, says on this week’s Zero podcast.

Commercial Property > “There will be people who either implicitly or explicitly think that these timelines are going to shift, or that somehow or another it is not going to become a binding constraint. But that is a big risk to take." Mark Carney on.ft.com/3BAx5xS@financialtimes.com

Mark Carney warns net zero will mean ‘significant’ stranded property assets

Real estate investors squeezed between falling valuations and pressure to upgrade energy efficiency

Turning the lights back on in Scotland’s empty homes. How the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership #SEHP is resurrecting abandoned properties across Scotland for use as affordable housing. REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL is a cross-platform venture founded by Talking Heads singer David Byrne.

Turning the Lights Back on in Scotland's Empty Homes

What if you could create housing without starting from scratch? Facing a housing shortage, Scotland is bringing new life to abandoned homes.

New Towns > “clarity about the areas; clear commitment to early investment in infrastructure, both physical and social, well ahead of the pace of development of housing; governance arrangements that bring strong leadership for that development” Michael Lyons on.ft.com/3XS4dbZ@financialtimes.com

Building new UK towns needs radical approach, says task force chair

Michael Lyons says potential locations for housing developments will be identified next summer

ZRS.berlin#sufficiency. In this case: 19m2/👤. Besides earth plaster, strawboards, timber, PV, natural ventilation.

A fundamental principle of #sustainabilitywww.houseplanninghelp.com/350#SelfBuild#EcoHome#Passivhaus

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Genevieve Guenther on the Language of Climate Politics

Podcast Episode · Drilled · S11 E7 · 1h 19m

Thoughts? > To protect itself from disaster, this country’s leaning on an unusual source of cash. Dominica is using revenue from its citizenship-by-investment program to fund its ambitious plans to become more resilient against hurricanes in the Caribbean. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

To protect itself from disaster, this country’s leaning on an unusual source of cash

Dominica is using revenue from its citizenship-by-investment program to fund its ambitious plans to become more resilient against hurricanes in the Caribbean.

I see faking climate action as roughly on par with the people who create and sell fake medicines to people in desperate situations. There has been a long, long period of Fuck Around. Kenneth here is hopefully not going to be the last person to Find Out.

Ex-carbon offsetting boss charged in New York with multimillion-dollar fraud

Kenneth Newcombe, formerly CEO of C-Quest Capital, indicted over allegations of carbon credit manipulation