Case studies and articles

When the Municipality of Amsterdam buys new office furniture, the supplier takes back the old furniture, even if they did not supply it in the first place, and repairs, refurbishes, or recovers materi

The Circular Innovation Program 2016-2018 provides insight into the most important innovation projects and developments in the city in the field of Circular Economy and the way the City of Amsterdam a

The district heating Amsterdam is a large scale district heating using heat from industrial area and port.

Amsterdam offers energy loans to tenants and households, landlords and VvEs in Amsterdam.

A free zone is a shopping street with more flexible regulations. Residents, entrepreneurs, property owners and the municipality decide together which rules must still apply.

The city of Amsterdam is facilitating and suporting the development of a previously industrial region in Amsterdam Noord, into a sustainable and circular district.

The CTO Office Start-up in residence programme offers startups an intensive training programme, as well as the support of professional coaches or mentors.

This agenda sets out the course for investment in green space between 2015 and 2018, thus clearly pointing the way for initiatives.

It is an innovation programme that pools together forces from both private sector and research institutes, and allows the city to speed up the transition towards a circular economy.

The Structural Vision 2040 sets out the City of Amsterdam’s strategy in relation to green space.

Amsterdam developed an open-source Energy Atlas to provide detailed information on the geographical distribution of energy demand and potential supply (thermal production, geothermal, industry and pri

The municipality of Amsterdam introduced a flexible zoning law for the area neighbouring the port, so as to increase flexibility of building functions and counteract structural vacancy.

The cities of Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, and Rotterdam are exercising lobbying power with the Dutch national government and the EU in order to achieve adaptive rules and regulations and a greener

The Sustainable Agenda describes a number of goals designed to speed up the move towards a sustainable Amsterdam.

The Waste Implementation Plan contains three key points: (1) data-driven cleaning (street cleaning teams will no longer work according to fixed schedules and routes, but will make use of real-time dat

The municipality of Amsterdam introduced the Puccini Method as a framework for the design of public spaces in Amsterdam, which is unified for all city districts.

The Amsterdam Climate & Energy Fund (AKEF) supplies subordinated loans and is run by external fund managers.

The city of Amsterdam is in full support of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Studies (AMS).

The Amsterdam Smart City platform is a collaboration of over 100 local municipalities, businesses, residents and academic institutions partnering on more than 75 smart projects to date.