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TRiFOCAL London - Transforming City FOod hAbits for LIFE (LIFE TRiFOCAL London)
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,
Background
An estimated 89 million tonnes of food goes to waste in EU countries each year. Modelling suggests this could increase to over 120 million tonnes by 2020.
Managing the food system in complex and growing capital cities such as London is a major challenge. Londonâs households throw away an estimated 900 000 tonnes of food each year, of which ...
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REPURPOSE - equipping community groups in estates to reuse more, clear fly tipping and improve their local environment. (REPURPOSE LIFE)
Start date: Jul 21, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,
Background
The United Kingdom, in common with all other EU states, has placed the responsibility for collection and management of waste on local and regional government. Over the last 20 years or so, this role has moved from one of simple waste collection to the introduction of recycling services and, latterly, an increased focus on re-use and waste preve ...
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Climate-proofing Social Housing Landscapes (LIFE Housing Landscapes)
Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,
Background
Urban environments, with their high population densities, industries and infrastructure, are likely to suffer the most severe impacts of climate change. The anticipated increased pressure on hydrological processes and the growing prevalence of the urban âheat islandâ effect, especially during summer months, will cause significant additional ...
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NWE Strategic Initiatives Cluster - ADAPTATION TO THE SPATIAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE - Promote measures – Call for action – Share knowledge (SIC adapt!)
Start date: Mar 9, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2013,
The NWE OP acknowledges adapting to the impacts of climate change as one of the most fundamental challenges for territorial development in North West Europe. Through the Strategic Initiatives Cluster. Adaptation to the spatial impacts of climate change. eight transnational projects with almost 100 project partners combine their efforts for promoting and achieving effective adaptation throughout NW ...
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Changing Climate. Changing Lives (C-Change)
Start date: Oct 3, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
C-CHANGE aims to achieve a 'sea-change' in attitudes. behaviours and practical responses to the challenges that climate change raises for city regions by: 1. Empowering politicians. planners. practitioners. communities. and in particular young people. to champion these approaches. 2. Developing creative solutions to the sustainable management of open space. 3. Climate-proofing regional spatial ...
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The overall aim of the project was to transfer a range of innovative mechanisms for supporting learners in building, validating and valorising their employability skills developed in the context of environmental action to other European countries via partner organisations in the Netherlands, Poland and Spain. Following this transfer partners adapted the materials to their regional context and del ...
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SAUL (Sustainable and Accessible Urban Spaces) seeks to take forward a IIC project (New Methods in Socially Compatible Development of Urban Landscapes) to the development phase, to tackle the question of the role of socially-inclusive spaces in metropolitan regions, as well as the themes of regional identity and learning in planning cultures and partnerships. The objective of the action project, w ...
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