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Building Efficiency Accelerator staff at energy festival in Eskişehir-Sazova Park, Turkey. Photo by Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality
ESKIŞEHIR, Turkey (June 7, 2017) — During World Environment Week earlier this month, WRI’s Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) led a series of innovative and youth-focused outreach events in Eskişehir-Sazova Park to spread information about energy efficiency and sustainability. More than 500 children, from 7 to 15 years old, played several efficiency-themed games to better understand the basic concepts of building efficiency and the opportunities to improve energy use in their own lives.
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The Building Efficiency Accelerator hosted a workshop in Eskişehir for 95 experts in the field to increase building knowledge and capacity. Photo by Gözde Çoban
ESKIŞEHIR, TURKEY (June 9, 2017) — The Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA), with support from Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality, hosted the first in a series of trainings on building energy efficiency in Eskişehir, Turkey. This training increased the capacity of local professionals in working with distributed district heating and cooling systems. The workshop convened 95 experts from local government, academia and the private sector.
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Nairobi City County, Kenya and four other entities join the Building Efficiency Accelerator. Photo by Ninara/Flickr
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY (April 4, 2017)— Five new cities and districts have committed to improve their buildings by adopting new policies, demonstration projects and tracking progress against their goals. The cities join the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA), a public-private collaboration that now includes over 35 global organizations and 28 cities in 18 countries.
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Graphic by Nikhil Chaudhary.
WRI India's Nikhil Chaudhary is fighting to improve walkability in India through art. When the urban planner is not at the office, he is making comics and short films depicting pedestrian mobility struggles in cities that prioritize cars.
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WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities’ World TOD Resource Launches at ConnectKaro 2017 in New Delhi
Mumbai Road. Photo by Rasmus Lerdorf/ Flickr
The World Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Resource, an easily-accessible, web-based platform designed to educate policy-makers, planners and developers in the Global South about the benefits of TOD and equip them with tools for implementation, is now available to the public. Going beyond the traditional focus on urban design, the World TOD Resource includes a wide range of information about financing, institutional structures and practical implementation advice—in addition to design.
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Transforming Transportation 2017: Sustainable Mobility for All. Photo by Luca Lo Re / WRI
WASHINGTON (January 13, 2017) — City officials worldwide often lack accurate, comprehensive information about the traffic conditions of their road networks. Road sensors and other technologies that can collect data in real time are often prohibitively expensive even for countries with the financial means. At the same time, the amount of mobility data collected by the private sector has grown exponentially—an opportunity for collaboration between business and governments to improve mobility worldwide.
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Following WRI Brasil Sustainable Cities’ Seven Steps, the city’s plan is improving sustainable mobility and urban planning
Joinville's Urban Mobility Plan Enhances City Walkability, Public Transport and Mobility Infrastucture. Photo by: Mariana Gil / EMBARQ Brasil / Flickr
Since launching its Mobility Plan in 2015, Joinville, in Santa Catarina, Brazil, has become a model city for urban planning. With ambitious and coherent goals, the city is prepared to offer a high-quality of life to a population that is expected to reach 1 million by 2045.
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WRI Turkey Sustainable Cities Hosts Workshops and Technical Studies to Support Ministry’s Strategic Plan
Safe urban cycling and lane implementation workshop, co-hosted by WRI Turkey Sustainable Cities and the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. Photo by Republic of Turkey Ministry of Environment and Urbanization
In November 2016, WRI Turkey Sustainable Cities and Turkey’s Ministry of Environment and Urbanization organized a four-day training on bike lane implementation for 200 urban experts and officials from 81 cities. The event highlighted cycling accessibility, infrastructure and safety and served to support the Ministry’s Strategic Plan for 2015-2017.
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WRI Brasil Sustainable Cities has been supporting the city through research, capacity building and more to reduce traffic congestion
Belo Horizonte, Brazil Commute Traffic. Photo Mariana Gil / EMBARQ / Flickr
On October 4th, the Transport and Transit Agency of Belo Horizonte (BHTRANS) launched “Roadmap for developing a Mobility Management Program,” a landmark initiative that works with the private sector to improve urban mobility.
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Forum Co-organizer WRI Brings Together City Authorities and Transport Experts to Discuss Urban Mobility Challenges and Best Practices
Leaders and Experts Participating in the TOD and TDM Sub-Forum. From left to right: Daizong Liu, Lailai Li, Holger Dalkmann, Jifu Guo, Jorge Macias, Marco Batarce and Mingzheng Sun. Photo by Ying Wang / WRI China Sustainable Cities
On October 24 and 25, Beijing, China hosted the third World Metropolitan Transport Development Forum, which centered on urban transit integration, sustainability and innovation in cities. Mayors, transportation agencies, experts and scholars came from across the country, region and world to participate in the event. As a co-organizer, WRI hosted a session on Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and Transport Demand Management (TDM), which many authorities, academics and professionals attended.