• University of Amsterdam

• Spatial development,
• Nature & Environment

A decisive decade for the green metropole amsterdam

By Annemarie van Wezel

The European Union presents in its Green Deal great ambitions to transform EU’s economy to a sustainable future. These ambitions relate to eight core themes; climate, clean energy, circular economy, resource efficiency, toxic-free environment, biodiversity, fair food and smart mobility. To reach the goals set-out, we’ll change the way we live our everyday lives, and we live these lives mostly within cities. These Green Deal ambitions obviously are highly interconnected, with all types of possible trade-offs and lock-ins that we would like to avoid, but also with all types of possible synergies that we would love to exploit.

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