C40 Voices: Cristina Mendonca on Rio+C40
PUBLISHED July 31, 2012
Our City Director in Rio de Janeiro reports on the Climate Adaptation and Risk Assessment panel she chaired at the Rio+C40 event last month.
Posts tagged with "Heidelberg"
Mayors Voices: Lord Mayor of Heidelberg Eckart Würzner on city solutions
PUBLISHED June 28, 2011
Cities are already implementing climate solutions, and a key ongoing task for these leaders is to apply pressure at the federal level to encourage world governments to undertake their own climate initiatives, Lord Mayor of Heidelberg, Eckart Würzner, told the C40 News Team.
Mayors Voices: Lord Mayor of Heidelberg Eckart Würzner
PUBLISHED June 02, 2011
Formerly a freight yard, the Bahnstadt area will now house a sustainable city district where all the buildings are being built to meet strict energy efficiency standards. The city of Heidelberg, Germany is building one of the world’s largest developments of passive housing – buildings that are highly energy efficient. The district, known as the Bahnstadt, is being built around three core concepts: reduce energy need, generage energy cleanly and efficiently and use that energy as efficiently as possible.
