Curitiba, Wins Globe Sustainable City Award 2010
The Brazilian city of Curitiba, the host of the forthcoming 39th World Scout Conference, won the Globe Sustainable City Award 2010.
The city of Curitiba is awarded for excellent sustainable urban development. The City of Curitiba shows maturity in their understanding of sustainable city development – both regarding policy and implementation. The holistic approach is well framed and managed in order to create a strong and healthy community, integrating the environmental dimension with other dimensions like intellectual, cultural, economic and social."
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The Globe Award is a sustainability award that is given out to recognize and encourage societies, the corporate sector, individuals and academia that have excelled in the area of sustainability. Globe Award a non-profit organization, aims to foster sustainable development in society. They state that “[their] role is to inspire actors to do more and to take responsibility through awarding great cases within research, innovations, large corporations and cities”.
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