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[...]  A study by British Business Energy  used several, specific measures to rank cities across the globe  to determine the most eco-friendly locations to work, and the results are not what you might expect. [...] The Top Eco-Friendly cities to work in. British Business Energy THE 5 GREENEST CITIES IN EUROPE London The study named London as the number 1 most eco-friendly city for workers. It had the fourth-highest number of commuters walking or cycling to work at nearly 30 per cent. Recently London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, proposed a ‘cycling tube’ which would see cycle routes following the existing Underground network. The city also had the most vegan or vegetarian places to eat with 3,709 restaurants offering options for the climate-conscious. That’s more than twice as many as London’s closest competitor, New York. And, when it comes to innovation, over 10 per cent of all patents in the UK were environmentally related too. “Now more than ever it’s importan...

Recent weeks have seen the news emerge this year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed. This is a big story within the renewable energy sector. For while the Olympic Games will now newly take place in 2021 from 23 July to 8 August and the Paralympic Games between 24 August and 5 September, Tokyo 2020 was to be  a celebration of an eco-friendly Games  and a fantastic insight into the current state of renewable energy as a whole. Going forward, the Games will still be called Tokyo 2020 instead of Tokyo 2021 (just as all following references to it in this article shall) but as we shall have to wait a year until the Games officially begin it’s useful to consider now what Tokyo 2020’s greatest achievements in renewable energy are set to be? And how are Tokyo 2020’s renewable energy goals set to compare to the last Games in Rio 2016, and Paris in 2024? Showcasing solar across Tokyo 2020 Many of the Olympic venues like the nation’s new Olympic Stadium that opened...