Creating Sustainable Cities

CREATING

SUSTAINABLE

CITIES

Creating Sustainable Cities is an Ibex Earth led initiative that has been designed to secure £100 million worth of funding that will be used to deliver and finance 'sustainable city' projects. To date, we have secured £39.5 million to spend on sustainable energy, plastic pollution and climate change adaptation projects across urban landscapes. This is only the beginning of our work.

In under two years of the Creating Sustainable Cities initiative we have helped to secure £39.5 million worth of funding to deliver projects on subjects that range from supporting schools reduce their energy consumption through to projects that help build the UK's cities and towns build climate resilience to flood risk, heat stress and worsening air quality. Let's get some more.

OUR PROJECTS

Creating a Business Case to Invest in Urban Greening

Nature Smart Cities is an EU funded project that sets out to develop, test and validate a new business model that enables local authorities to justify the economic expenditure required to deliver urban greening programmes. The project will explore the enormous economic, social and climate benefits that urban greening programmes can bring to urban landscapes. We have already published 'The Benefits of Urban Greening' through this project, a copy of which you can download from our publication page.

Understanding the Food-Water-Energy Nexus for Urban Environments

Urban populations are in a constant state of growth, which places an increasing pressure on three vital resources - food, water and energy. The CRUNCH project, funded by the Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative, led by the University of Portsmouth, which explores the connections between food, water and energy.

Energy Challenges UK

We have had a fantastic opportunity to work with the Young People's Trust for the Environment to develop an exciting initiative called Energy Challenges UK. The project engages primary schools on a variety of environmental topics that include energy and climate, plastic and waste, and nature and biodiversity. The funding for the project was secured via the Interreg North Sea programme. Information about the project is available at www.energychallenges.org.uk

Tackling Plastic Waste and Identifying new opportunities via the Circular Economy

The BBC's Blue Planet II acted as an incredible catalyst for action on plastic pollution. Through a project called PlastiCity we will be exploring how cities and towns can identify streams of 'waste' or 'lost' plastic and develop new processes that reduces the volume of plastic that turns into waste. We are currently working on a project that will help local authorities identify how they can achieve their new 65% municipal waste recycling targets by 2035. More information will be available soon.

Empowering Solar PV and Battery

EMPOWER is an Interreg North Sea funded project that will identify how cities and towns can help their communities deploy technologies (solar PV, batteries) and become more independent from national energy grids.

Reducing the Urban Heat Stress

Cool Towns is funded via the Interreg 2 Seas programme and sets out to demonstrate how urban greening and shading can be integrated into the landscapes of European cities and towns to reduce the risks associated with heat stress and the urban heat island effect. It is a strategic project that links in with the aims and objectives of Nature Smart Cities.

Exploring Nature-Based Solutions to Reduce Coastal Flood Risk

The Sustainable and Resilient Coastal Communities project is our fourth successful application under the Interreg 2 Seas programme. It looks at how urban coastal communities can integrate nature-based solutions into their coastal flood defences, as opposed to coastal communities relying on traditional grey infrastructure.

CREATING

SUSTAINABLE

CITIES

a catalyst for change across the UK's urban landscapes

CREATING

SUSTAINABLE

CITIES

OUR PROJECTS

CREATING

SUSTAINABLE

CITIES

'to a great mind, nothing is little.

Arthur Conan Doyle

'you can't use up creativity. the more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

CREATING

SUSTAINABLE

CITIES

CREATING

SUSTAINABLE

CITIES

OUR PROJECTS

CREATING

SUSTAINABLE

CITIES

'to a great mind, nothing is little.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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'you can't use up creativity. the more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

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