VIDEO LESSON
KAROL JULIANA OVALLE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5o7RdlP4FY
WHAT HAVE THEY
CITY DONE?
Eco-efficiency is important
in this city, and it begins
1. Oslo, Norway with grass-roots
involvement.
The streets of Oslo look
fantastic, due to local
contributions being made to
keep the area sustainable
and highly-functioning for
all of its residents.
The riverside city is
stunning and features lots
2. Stockholm, Sweden of natural landscape, such
as beautiful trees navigated
by cycling paths.
It was the first city to win
the European Green
Capital Award
Your concern with reducing
3. Columbia, Missouri, energy, which in turn cuts
United States costs and reduces
greenhouse gas emissions.
In Columbia, Missouri,
businesses are incentivized
to improve their energy
efficiency through a
citywide grant system.
the city’s ecological goals
4. Vancouver, Canada include reducing
greenhouse gas emissions
by 20 percent and planting
150,000 new trees by 2020,
making it one of the
greenest cities on the map
both literally and figuratively
speaking.
Cape Town and
HOW DID THEY GET IT?
Oslo residents are
encouraged to clean up, go
green, and create a climate
that features better air
quality, eco-efficiency,
biodiversity, and an
abundance of clean, natural
resources.
Environmental policies are
prioritised in Stockholm,
and as such, the streets are
clean and the urban city
has a country-like feel to it,
despite having tall buildings
and a large number of
residences.
Columbia has a number of
green groups, which are
coalitions of like-minded
people who collaborate to
achieve common
environmental goals. These
groups clean rivers, restore
animal habitats, and
promote beautification,
restoration, and citywide
recycling.
Meeting the objectives
Vancouver’s most notable
performance is in the area
of CO2 emissions. In The
Green City Index,
Vancouver boasts the
lowest greenhouse gas
emissions per capita of any
city.
Encouraging people to take
5. Cape Town, Johannesburg is said to care of the environment
Johannesburg, and have most green spaces in
Durban, South Africa the whole continent and
Durban managed to take a
lead because of its target to
become a zero-waste city
within 20 years and carbon
neutral by 2050.
This city was the first in the The fantastic public
United States to introduce transport system and
6. San Francisco, United the coloured bins recycling government’s
States system to homes and encouragement for people
workplaces, making to use more electric cars
recycling easy and also helped San Francisco
accessible, and more to be one of the eco-
importantly — legally friendliest cities in the
obligatory. world.