Global calls for transformative change in the face of urgent sustainability challenges are growing increasingly louder, across science, policy and society. Transformations are inherently political, and they should be treated as such by researchers, practitioners and...
The new National Environment and Planning Strategy (NOVI) has identified a great housing shortage in the coming decades. It urges that new homes be built at locations within the existing urban structure or near transport nodes. At the same time, various parties are arguing...
The Netherlands is the European champion for urban sprawl. This dubious honour is the result of a calculation on land-use changes since 2000 performed by the ESPON SUPER project (Sustainable Urbanization and land-use Practices in European Regions). The study was initiated in...
The Talanoa Dialogue in the UNFCCC negotiations extends a broad invitation to share low-carbon stories on how to move from ‘where do want to go’ to ‘how do we get there’. The aim is to ratchet up ambition in the NDCs to bring them in line with the Paris Climate Agreement...
The 2018 Emissions Gap Report that will be released next week will feature the contribution of cities, regions, and business to bring the world closer in line with global climate goals. More than 5,000 of these “non-state actors” came together this past September to pledge...
