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In Just a Decade, Paris Achieves 40% Less Cars and 45% Cleaner Air – Here’s how they did it

In just ten short years, Paris has achieved a transformative feat many cities only dream of: reducing car use by an…

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Sustainable Planet

Paris investing €250 million to become a 100% ‘cycling city’

With the proposed development of new infrastructure, including large-scale implementation of secure parking solutions and strengthening of the cycling ecosystem, the…

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Inspiring People

Paris is removing 70,000 on-street car parking spaces to free up space for people

The French capital is halving street parking to make the city greener and more people-friendly.

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Sustainable Planet

Historic win for climate justice as France Found Guilty of Climate Inaction in landmark case

Activists say the ‘Historic Victory’ sends a clear signal to the world that failure to take sufficient measures to halt climate…

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Inspiring People

Paris’ famous Champs-Élysées set for green makeover

Vehicle space in the iconic thoroughfare will be reduced by half, tree tunnels planted to improve air quality, and roads turned…

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Inspiring People

Paris to create 650km of cycle lanes post lockdown

Paris unveils plans to install up to 650km of bicycle lanes—including a number of pop-up “corona cycleways”—with the first expected to…

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Inspiring People

World’s largest urban farm to open in 2020 – on a Paris rooftop!

The 14,000m² farm is set to open in the south-west of the French capital early next year. Designers plan to grow…

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Sustainable Planet

Disneyland Paris banishes plastic straws

Disneyland Paris this week announced a series of measures to make Europe’s biggest private tourist attraction more environmentally friendly, including banning…

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Better Society

The citizens of Paris are planting gardens in the street

Paris licences its ‘citizen gardeners to vegetate all you want’ as one of several initiatives to increase the amount of green…

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Good Stuff

Spectacular Rescue by Malian immigrant who saves a dangling toddler by scaling up 4 storeys in Paris

The Malian immigrant Mamadou Gassama saved the child’s life by scaling up four floors in 30 seconds.

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In Just a Decade, Paris Achieves 40% Less Cars and 45% Cleaner Air – Here’s how they did it

Paris investing €250 million to become a 100% ‘cycling city’

Paris is removing 70,000 on-street car parking spaces to free up space for people

Historic win for climate justice as France Found Guilty of Climate Inaction in landmark case

Paris’ famous Champs-Élysées set for green makeover

Paris to create 650km of cycle lanes post lockdown

World’s largest urban farm to open in 2020 – on a Paris rooftop!

Disneyland Paris banishes plastic straws

The citizens of Paris are planting gardens in the street

Spectacular Rescue by Malian immigrant who saves a dangling toddler by scaling up 4 storeys in Paris

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In Just a Decade, Paris Achieves 40% Less Cars and 45% Cleaner Air – Here’s how they did it

Paris investing €250 million to become a 100% ‘cycling city’

Paris is removing 70,000 on-street car parking spaces to free up space for people

Historic win for climate justice as France Found Guilty of Climate Inaction in landmark case

Paris’ famous Champs-Élysées set for green makeover

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Paris to create 650km of cycle lanes post lockdown

World’s largest urban farm to open in 2020 – on a Paris rooftop!

Disneyland Paris banishes plastic straws

The citizens of Paris are planting gardens in the street

Spectacular Rescue by Malian immigrant who saves a dangling toddler by scaling up 4 storeys in Paris