PowerPoint Presentation: Reykjavik, Iceland 1
PowerPoint Presentation: The cities relies on hydropower and geothermal activity to provide hot water, electricity and heat for the city. It’s a city completely powered by renewable energy
PowerPoint Presentation: The cities relies on hydropower and geothermal activity to provide hot water, electricity and heat for the city.
PowerPoint Presentation: The buses in the city run on zero-emission hydrogen power and are among the world’s greenest public transportation systems
PowerPoint Presentation: Just 0.1 percent of the electricity used in this city is from fossil fuels
PowerPoint Presentation: The city plans to become completely free from dependence on fossil fuels by 2050
PowerPoint Presentation: San Francisco, California 2
PowerPoint Presentation: San Francisco is one of the most environment-friendly cities in the world
PowerPoint Presentation: It was the first US city to ban the use of plastic bags
PowerPoint Presentation: It has implemented the most successful recycling program in the US
PowerPoint Presentation: Malmo, Sweden 3
PowerPoint Presentation: This Swedish city has the world’s third-largest wind energy park
PowerPoint Presentation: It has an abundance of green space as well as a vast variety of green technology solutions
PowerPoint Presentation: The Western Harbor in Malmö is completely powered by renewable energy from the sun, wind, hydropower and biofuels
PowerPoint Presentation: Even the city’s buildings are green, constructed using sustainable materials and designed to be as energy efficient as possible
PowerPoint Presentation: Vancouver, Canada 4
PowerPoint Presentation: Vancouver is Canada’s greenest city and it is North America’s second-greenest next to San Francisco.
PowerPoint Presentation: The city’s main goal is to be named the world’s greenest city by 2020.
PowerPoint Presentation: An amazing 90% of the city’s power run through renewable resources and most of it are hydroelectric power.
PowerPoint Presentation: Portland, Oregon 5
PowerPoint Presentation: Known as the first in America to implement an effective climate action scheme.
PowerPoint Presentation: It has more LEED-certified suburban towers when compared to other cities in the US.
PowerPoint Presentation: Over 25% of its workforce travels either by public transport, bicycles or carpooling
PowerPoint Presentation: Curitiba, Brazil 6
PowerPoint Presentation: Brazil’s green capital and the greenest city in Latin America
PowerPoint Presentation: It has 14 forests, over a thousand of public green spaces and 16 parks.
PowerPoint Presentation: 70% of the city’s waste is recycled and about 1.5 million new trees have been planted along byways and highways.
PowerPoint Presentation: Copenhagen, Denmark 7
PowerPoint Presentation: City is renowned for almost a third of resident relying primarily on daily commuting on their bicycles
PowerPoint Presentation: It’s efforts to use renewable power including wind turbines has made it a leader when it comes to fighting climate change.
PowerPoint Presentation: Stockholm, Sweden 8
PowerPoint Presentation: 40% of the city is made up of green spaces.
PowerPoint Presentation: Stockholm took the title of the European Green Capital back in 2010 for its outstanding commitment to sustainability.
PowerPoint Presentation: Hamburg, Germany 9
PowerPoint Presentation: Winner of the 2011 European Green Capital, the city is following sustainable standards to redevelop its cities
PowerPoint Presentation: Bogota, Colombia 10
PowerPoint Presentation: The city boasts an efficient public transport system, more than 1,100 urban green spaces and hundreds of miles of bike trails.
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