Urban Pathways events on mobility and waste under ‘environMENTALISE’ initiative
Urban Pathways is organising several events under an initiative ‘environMENTALISE –co-creating safe, friendly and green neighbourhoods’ in cities in Latin America, Africa and Asia that contribute to raising awareness about the environmental, health, social and economic benefits of non-motorised transport, as well as of waste reduction. EnvironMENTALISE, an initiative of Wuppertal Institute, UN-HABITAT and UN Environment under the Urban Pathways project, includes awareness raising and capacity building activities on-site (car-free day, tactical urbanism, etc.) and online (webinars). For this purpose, Urban Pathways is collaborating with municipalities and local stakeholders in the region and cooperating with several organisations (such as ITDP Mexico, WRI India, ICLEI, FabLab Barcelona and Ciudad Emergente) and initiatives (such as World Habitat Day 2019, Waste Wise Cities Campaign, European Mobility Week 2019, Day of walking and cycling to school 2019, African Mobility Month). The participating cities will be provided with an air quality monitoring device ‘Smart Citizen kit’ to measure the impact of the activities on-site.
The cities joining the initiative are Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Quito (Ecuador), Aguascalientes (México), Cuenca (Ecuador), Kochi (India), Nairobi (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda) and Kathmandu (Nepal).
The topic and date of the webinars are:
Urban Pathways is organising several events under an initiative ‘environMENTALISE –co-creating safe, friendly and green neighbourhoods’ in cities in Latin America, Africa and Asia that contribute to raising awareness about the environmental, health, social and economic benefits of non-motorised transport, as well as of waste reduction. EnvironMENTALISE, an initiative of Wuppertal Institute, UN-HABITAT and UN Environment under the Urban Pathways project, includes awareness raising and capacity building activities on-site (car-free day, tactical urbanism, etc.) and online (webinars). For this purpose, Urban Pathways is collaborating with municipalities and local stakeholders in the region and cooperating with several organisations (such as ITDP Mexico, WRI India, ICLEI, FabLab Barcelona and Ciudad Emergente) and initiatives (such as World Habitat Day 2019, Waste Wise Cities Campaign, European Mobility Week 2019, Day of walking and cycling to school 2019, African Mobility Month). The participating cities will be provided with an air quality monitoring device ‘Smart Citizen kit’ to measure the impact of the activities on-site.
The cities joining the initiative are Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Quito (Ecuador), Aguascalientes (México), Cuenca (Ecuador), Kochi (India), Nairobi (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda) and Kathmandu (Nepal).
The topic and date of the webinars are:
- Walking and Cycling for Safer, Friendlier and Greener Neighbourhoods on 5thAugust 2019 (in Spanish), in September (in English)
- Transforming waste to wealth: Global challenge, local solutions on 8thAugust 2019 (in English), 13thAugust 2019 (in Portuguese) and 15thAugust (in Spanish)