ACCORDING to the Green World City Organisation, a green city is a city that is planned and structured with more focus on keeping it greener and sustainable environment to address the issues of rapid urbanisation, environmental pollution and climate change.
This focuses on cost- effective solutions that make cities more environmentally sustainable and economically vibrant. Components of green cities are renewable energy, green building technologies, ecofriendly transport, green certificates, recycling, sustainable design, urban design and planning. The question is how far are we with this development?
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