Digital Energy Net

Urban mobility is essential to creating sustainable cities. It impacts not only environmental pollution levels but also productivity and access to key services. An effective urban mobility strategy necessitates high-quality public transit that reduces congestion while being seamlessly integrated into city fabric, and less reliance on cars that produce sound pollution and air pollution. Transportation…

Land use planning is a practice designed to maximize land resources efficiently while mitigating potential environmental, economic, and social problems. First step to solving any problem is recognizing it; this requires conducting a reconnaissance field tour and meeting representatives of those affected. Next steps involve deciding on operational questions for planning operation: personnel, facilities, cooperation…

Zoning regulations play a critical role in community planning, impacting real estate development, ownership and investment decisions significantly. Zoning laws outline what structures may be built on specific pieces of property – for instance how tall buildings may be constructed or what contents may be contained inside of them. Zoning regulates land use by allocating…

Digital governance refers to a set of policies designed to guide organizations’ use of data, technology infrastructure and digital tools. This ensures transparency and accountability while mitigating risk and encouraging innovation. Boards of directors are charged with setting strategic direction and aligning digital governance with their organization’s overall goals. Furthermore, boards must ensure appropriate compliance…

Community engagement fosters trust between organizations and those they serve, prioritizing equitable partnering arrangements and giving people power to drive change. Engaging communities directly is a form of participation that puts decision-making power back in their hands, with ongoing dialogue to develop sustainable visions for their future and reducing barriers to participation and providing access…

The EV revolution has created thousands of high-quality jobs in battery manufacturing and charging station construction, while transitioning to electric vehicles can reduce climate-harming emissions significantly while mitigating negative effects on people and communities. Electric vehicles (EVs) produce no tailpipe emissions, significantly reducing air pollution around homes and workplaces. Furthermore, their use of regenerative braking…

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one of the core technologies required for reaching net zero emissions, consisting of underground capture of fossil fuel emissions for long-term storage. CO2 can then be injected into geological formations such as saline aquifers or depleted oil and gas reservoirs hundreds of feet underground, to make an environmental statement…

Climate change mitigation encompasses any human activity which reduces emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere or increases sinks for these gases, such as changing energy systems, protecting biodiversity or decreasing deforestation. Examples of such actions may include changing energy systems or restricting deforestation. No matter who they are, everyone can play their part in…

Accessing affordable, clean energy is essential to economic development and human wellbeing. Transitioning away from fossil fuels towards renewables necessitates policies which promote innovation while addressing technical hurdles – while keeping this transition as just and equitable as possible. This Tracker highlights publicly available government policies related to energy production, consumption and storage as of…

By providing amenities such as restaurants, retail shops and residences in close proximity, residents are more likely to walk or use public transit to travel between locations – thus increasing sustainability and decreasing carbon emissions. However, this practice was not always so innocent; historically due to pollution concerns city planners used residential areas as barriers…