Basics
Hannover on the way to Sustainability
Hannover is the capital of the German Federal State of Lower Saxony, created in 1946 and, with around 516,200 inhabitants and an area of about 20,400 hectares, the largest city in the state.
Hannover - a loveable city at the Heart of Europe
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Hannover is home to many higher education providers and an important industrial, trading and services centre. Hannover Exhibition Grounds, the world's largest trade fair facility, stages leading international fairs such as CeBIT and Hannover Messe every year and hosted the EXPO 2000 World Exposition to celebrate the new millennium. The world's biggest marksmen's festival, Schützenfest Hannover, happens here every July.
With its signature of the Aalborg Charter in 1995, the Hannover Call of European Mayors in 2000 and the Aalborg Commitments in 2004 the city has committed itself, like many other municipalities, to policy aims for a resilient future oriented on sustainable development guidelines.
In realising the objectives set out in the Agenda 21, cities and local authorities are assigned a special role: "As the level of governance closest to the people, they play a vital role in educating, mobilizing and responding to the public to promote sustainable development." (Agenda 21, Chapter 28)
Hannover City Council and Administration works within local government associations and numerous international networks of cities and regions for good practice transfer, evaluation of the various environmental and sustainability areas and especially for the common cause of supporting sustainable urban development.
Synergies between environment and economy within a city administration - experiences made by the City of Hannover/Germany
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City greening their economy; In Office and in Action
Experiences made by the City of Hannover/German
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National & international associations
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Aalborg Commitments signing website
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Sustainable Cities: Hannover
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ICLEI - Local Goverments for Sustainability
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English version of HANNOVER.de
All main pages of HANNOVER.de in English language
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Data
2008 Environment Report for the City of Hannover, Germany - applying environment-related sustainability indicators
The City of Hannover's 2008 environment report contains a mass of up-to-date information on the state of the environment in this north German city, tracing long-term trends and describing exemplary projects in the fields of energy and climate protection, mobility and traffic, air, noise, soil, water, watercourses, wastewater, waste management, local recreation, nature conservation, agriculture and forestry. Its 60 pages present current environmental data in understandable form for all interested citizens, while for politicians and the city administration the report provides an objective basis for decisions on nature and environmental protection, improving the local quality of life and sustainable urban development.
Strategy
Hannover Principles
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Hannover + 10
Strategy paper from 2005
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Components of factor10 strategy
A lesson from 2006
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Agenda 21 in Hannover
The Agenda 21 was passed in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro; its aims are to secure long term the essential conditions for life, to stabilise the world economy and to establish social justice between generations, genders and peoples as the guiding vision of sustainability.