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What Is Urban Mobility?
Urban mobility refers to the ability to move easily around a city. This encompasses all forms of movement – walking and cycling to public transit and driving – as…
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What Is Energy Storage?
Energy storage enables renewables to be utilized when they’re most needed by the electricity system and can help mitigate demand spikes that increase electricity rates for all, including marginalized…
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What Are Zoning Regulations?
Zoning regulations establish the parameters for construction on land parcels and businesses to operate on them, to ensure they contribute positively to both overall community goals and long-term urban…
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Land Use Planning
Land use planning is a comprehensive strategy intended to ensure physical, economic and social efficiency within communities while mitigating any environmental impacts associated with development projects and creating equitable…
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What is Digital Governance?
Digital governance refers to a collection of rules and decision-making procedures that guide the creation, evolution and use of new technologies such as websites, mobile phones and the Internet,…
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What is Community Engagement?
Community engagement refers to involving community members in conversations, decision-making processes and activities related to issues affecting them directly, in order to produce policies and plans which are more…
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Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) involves collecting CO2 emissions from power plants and industrial processes such as steel and cement production, then injecting it into deep geological formations like…
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The Benefits of Electric Vehicles (EVs)
Electric vehicles produce no tailpipe emissions, helping reduce air pollution and noise pollution as well as climate change by not burning fossil fuels. Electric vehicles (EVs) make sense due…
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Climate Change Mitigation
Human-caused climate change results from rising atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Climate mitigation efforts aim to decrease these concentrations to limit future warming and its related consequences. Protecting,…
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What Is Energy Policy?
Energy policy emphasizes sustainable practices and emissions reductions while simultaneously improving fuel economy and decreasing reliance on petroleum-based products. Countries devise energy policies based on their national interests. Policies…