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Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across the Netherlands.

  • News The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass legislation making it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — this includes petrol and diesel, aviation and cruise ships
  • News The city where ‘the future has already arrived’, positive.news (Mar 18, 2024)
  • News European nations must end repression of peaceful climate protest, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Feb 28, 2024)
  • News Denmark, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands come together to make the North Sea a "green power plant", The Daily Alternative (Jun 15, 2022)

2019-2021[edit | edit source]

  • The launch of bicycle parking initiatives in Belgium and the Netherlands, (date not found), 2021...[1]
  • New Global Coalition launched to address impacts of Climate Change, Jan 25, 2021...[2] Developed by the UK in partnership with Egypt, Bangladesh, Malawi, the Netherlands, Saint Lucia and the United Nations, this new Coalition will work to turn international political commitments made through the United Nations Call for Action on Adaptation and Resilience into on-the-ground support for vulnerable communities.
  • Dutch officials reveal measures to cut emissions after court ruling, Apr 24, 2020...[3]

Holland's Sea Ranger Service hugely sequestrates carbon. But it also socially benefits many: the unemployed, veterans, port workers, Feb 7, 2020...[4]

  • Dutch supreme court upholds landmark ruling demanding climate action, Dec 20, 2019...[5]

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2017-2018[edit | edit source]

  • A look at Rotterdam's policy for open land data, Nov 20, 2018...[1]

Dutch appeals court upholds landmark climate change ruling, Oct 9, 2018...[2]

  • Experimental City: How Rotterdam Became A World Leader In Sustainable Urban Design, May 12, 2017...[3]
  • Netherlands invests €1m in global climate adaptation centre, Feb 8, 2017...[4]
  • Holland says goodbye to oil, Jan 20, 2017...[5]
  • Today all Dutch trains are powered 100% by wind energy, Jan 2, 2017...[6]

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2016[edit | edit source]

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  • Dutch cities launch Europe's largest e-bus fleet, Dec 20, 2016...[1]
  • How Rotterdam became the world leader in sustainable urban design, Dec 5, 2016...[2]
  • Money for Everybody, Nov 30, 2016...[3]
  • The Dutch Are Going Big on Trees, Oct 25, 2016...[4]

Dutch parliament votes to close down country's coal industry, Sep 23[5]

  • 75 years after its destruction, Rotterdam continues to reinvent itself, Aug 24[6]
  • This Bike Lane Made From Recycled Wood Chips Is the Most Dutch Thing Ever, January 21[7]

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2014-2015[edit | edit source]

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Dutch city plans to pay citizens a 'basic income', and Greens say it could work in the UK, December 26, 2015...[1]

  • Rotterdam's residents crowdfunded its new pedestrian bridge, July 29, 2015...[2]
  • How Groningen invented a cycling template for cities all over the world, July 29, 2015...[3]
  • Dutch city of Utrecht to experiment with a universal, unconditional income, June 26, 2015...[4]
  • Netherlands ordered to cut greenhouse gas emissions, June 24, 2015...[5]
  • How a New Dutch Library Smashed Attendance Records, Jul 21, 2014...[6]
  • Netherlands Aiming For 100,000 More Solar Roofs In 1 Year, April 8, 2014...[7]
  • Eindhoven introduces Sustainable Smart Lighting Systems, March 26, 2014...[8]

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Created November 3, 2021 by Phil Green
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