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    Co-designing Locally tailored Ecological solutions for Value added, socially inclusivE Regeneration in Cities
    Hamburg (DE), London (UK) and Milan (IT) have decided to create CLEVER Cities. Led by Hamburg, a well-balanced, competent partnership will position the EU as global leader in nature-based solution (NBS) innovation. CLEVER Cities applies a city centric approach, starting by key urban regeneration challenges and employing strong local partner clusters, to foster sustainable and socially inclusive urban regeneration locally, in Europe and globally. We will co-create, - implement, and -manage locally tailored NBS to deliver tangible social, environmental and economic improvements for urban regeneration. We are committed to make the interventions in front-runner cities (FR) cases for successful NBS and prepare robust replication roadmaps in fellow cities (FE), that also have NBS experience and expertise to offer. We will ensure long-term sustainability of actions in FR and FE by initiating urban innovation partnerships that will use SMART city principles to engage residents, establish new governance procedures, generate innovative financing and investment strategies. CLEVER Cities will employ partners’ large global networks to generate rapid and durable uptake of NBS by capacitating businesses and a CLEVER Solutions Basket with innovative technological, business, financing and governance solutions, in Europe and globally. The influential and committed FR will serve as role model for FE and global cities in East Asia and South America. All cities will actively engage in replication, thus, help to meet EU and UN sustainability goals and profile the EU as global leader in green innovation. CLEVER Cities materialises in strong local clusters around FR with partners, which can both support local co-creation as well as transversal activities with specific knowledge and expertise. This makes it a distinct, exciting project that will generate lasting results in cities and deliver a CLEVER Cities package with solutions, guidance and open-sourced data EU NBS reference framework.
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    Evaluation of biotic and abiotic resource use in the mobility sector - development of LCA compatible impact indicators, methods and concepts
    In published life cycle assessment (LCA) studies the focus is mainly on emissions to air and their associated impacts (e.g. climate change, acidification, toxicity). With the exception of the cumulated primary energy demand, the demand of a comprehensiveset of abiotic resources is usually neglected and the applied abiotic depletion potential indicators show methodological deficits. Even in the most comprehensive studies to date, supply risks and future scarcity of abiotic as well biotic resources including water and soil are not fully addressed. The aim of this proposal is to develop an LCA compatibleapproach for the assessment of the use of biotic and abiotic resources including water and soil which is applicable to all kinds of products and services. This assessment method will be exemplarily applied and tested for different alternative mobility options, i.e. the use of biofuels and new powertrain technologies. This challenging and complexapplication test is intended to demonstrate both practical feasibility and scientific robustness of the approach. Compared to the current state of the art, two main gaps are addressed: First, the impact spectrum covered by LCA methodology is broadened by adding complementary indicators which further improves its applicability and scientific robustness for a really comprehensive environmental assessment and comparison of technologies. The developed solutions and resulting methodological improvements can be applied by a variety of stakeholders for different use cases like the choice between product alternatives, the assessment of innovative technologies or the improvement of existing production processes. Based on the intended methodological improvements additional environmental impacts are covered which are directly applicable in the context of more comprehensive sustainability assessments. Second, the extended LCA approach will be applied to future mobility concepts in order to test the practical applicability and in order derive more robust conclusions on the technologies. The comparison of the mobility options allows the identification of opportunities and risks associated with the respective technological solution which serves as decision making support for the strategic decisions with regard to sustainable mobility. Concurrently, the verification of the applicability for such a complex test case is intended to demonstrate, that the extended LCA evaluation leads to meaningful and practically relevant results.
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