The Kitakyushu Urban Centre (KUC) is situated in Kitakyushu City, a city which has gone from being a byword for pollution to one of Japan's pre-eminent environmental cities, and is now aiming to become an environmental capital. KUC currently conducts research and activities to promote local governmental initiatives to realise sustainable cities, covering critical sectors such as resource circulation, low-carbon and resilient city development. Aiming at mainstreaming sustainable city development policies and practices in Asian cities, the Centre’s research and activities are enhanced by close links with local and central governments, private sector and international organisations working on the sustainable city agenda.
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Training on the City-to-City Collaboration for Creating Low-Carbon Society (Toyama City, November 2019)
The Ministry of Environment, Japan (MOEJ) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organized the "Training on the City-to-City Collaboration for Creating Low-Carbon Society", from 27-29 November in Toyama City. The objective of...
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Training Workshop for Creating a Low-Carbon Society “Climate Change Strategies for Local Governments: Low-Carbon City Policy Development and Implementation” (FY 2018)
From 30 January to 1 February 2019, the training workshop “Climate Change Strategies for Local Governments: Low-Carbon City Planning Development and Implementation” was organised in the cities of Kitakyushu and Fukuoka in Japan as part of the...
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Sustainable Society Built by Team Kitakyushu- Direction of Future International Environmental Cooperation -
Kitakyushu, with its vast experience in overcoming historic levels of pollution, is carrying out a diverse set of actions that take advantage of environmental management know-how, technologies, and partnerships between industries, government...
