European Green Capital

The city of the future is environmentally and climate friendly. Hamburg as “European Green Capital 2011” exemplifies how it can be achieved. It will be explained what is behind this new award generated by the European Commission only last year. The Hanseatic city has developed an array of innovative approaches to environmentally sustainable development that will be explained within this paper.

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In this research, an assessment process including 5 steps was built up; and a barometer with 5 classification bands ranging from 0 to 100 was recommended to use for both category and overall assessment.

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We are living on an increasingly urban planet. In 2008 we passed the halfway mark—50% of the world’s population now live in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70% by 2050. There is no turning back the urban trend. Yet ironically we have as a species yet to successfully design and plan cities that will accommodate our economic and demographic needs while uplifting and elevating us, and protect, restore, and nurture the planet and its natural systems. That we need new models of urbanization— that is, sustainable urbanization—is especially clear here in the U.S.

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There are many classes of green bonds that have been issued or proposed, and they have taken on a confusing plethora of names such as green gilts, green retail bonds, green investment bank bonds, green infrastructure bonds, 46 multilateral development bank green bonds, green corporate bonds, green sectoral bonds, rainforest bonds and index-linked carbon bonds. One class of green bonds that has attracted attention recently is the climate bond, which is a type of green bond issued to raise capital for investments in projects which specifically mitigate or adapt to climate change.

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Green projects – particularly sustainable energy sources and clean technology - include multiple technologies, at different stages of maturity. The appropriate type of financing will be chosen according to the stage of development of the technologies. For example venture capital financing is normally suited for un-proven and un-tested technologies, while project financing is used for mature technologies such as wind and solar.

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