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Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
2015 due to its ability to demonstrate
“European Green Capital” status. By
rapid progress and continuing ambition,
connecting about a hundred companies
across a wide range of quality of life,
of varying sizes, “Bristol Green Capital
environmental and green business criteria.
Partnership” has created a cooperation
In addition, Bristol is developing its
platform that brings together people from
own energy company which will form an
different sectors, who aspire for exchange
independent entity from the authority in
of views on the building of green cities.
January 2015.
The platform also brings companies with
By being selected to become a
similar business and functions together
member of the 100 Resilient Cities
for brainstorming, in-depth discussion,
network, Bristol has demonstrated an
promotion and seeking opportunities. As
understanding and commitment to
an indispensable part of the innovation
building urban resilience, the desire to
system, the platform is created by the
actively engage multiple-stakeholders
government for the overarching purpose
across the city and to positively impact
of achieving the effective flow and
upon the lives of poor and vulnerable
integration of technology, information
residents.
and capital needed for building a lowcarbon city. For instance, in terms of city health issues, “Bristol Green Capital
Experience and Inspiration
Partnership” launched Healthy City
1. Establishing Broad-based and
program, initiatives were taken to contact
Multi-layered Public-private-
companies and social organizations
people Partnerships
involved in the health industry, promote
Week Program. In the early stage of the
One of the prominent features of
their activities on Bristol Green Capital
urban administration in the UK lies in
Partnership’s official website and
the employment of small-sized teams for
distribute promotion brochures. Bristol
accomplishing big projects, which means
Green Capital Partnership may seem
setting up organizational platforms and
like a large organization both in concept
deploying volunteers to do more things
and in practical work it has done, but
with lower costs. A typical example of this
in reality, it is an organization run by
is “Bristol Green Capital Partnership”,
only two formal staff members, who are
an organization launched by Bristol
responsible for contracting partners and
seven years ago when it was applied to
keeping its daily operation. It is thanks