Today, Tallinn unveiled a Climate Strategy that sets the goal of making the capital climate neutral by 2050. The progressive Tallinn Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Adaptation Plan aims to reduce the urban and economic impact on the climate in a way that enriches the economy and the urban environment. The city is welcoming citizens' feedback on the climate strategy until April 7 at rohepoore@tallinnlv.ee.
Until the beginning of December, a new public transport vehicle with two bellows will be tested on Tallinn trolleybus lines, which can run as a trolley in the city centre, but can also disconnect its poles from the overhead wires if necessary and run on battery power like an electric bus.
You are kindly invited to participate in the ICT research and entrepreneurship conference “ICT Means Business”, which will take place on-site and online on 4.-5. November 2021.
Four innovative solutions were selected from this year’s application round of the Tallinnovation smart city competition, organized in cooperation of the Science Park Tehnopol and the City of Tallinn. The winners were road safety sensors, solar-powered luminaries, drones for rescue operations and an innovative package recycling solution.
The City of Tallinn and the Estonian Transport Administration gifted sets of traffic signs to kindergartens for learning safe traffic, which will enable to create a small traffic campus in the kindergarten’s courtyard. 24 Tallinn kindergartens will receive the traffic cart this year.
The City Government decided that Tallinn municipal schools will continue dispersing students at a 30-50 percent capacity, depending on the situation of each particular school, for the next two weeks, i.e. from 15 to 26 November.
Until the end of the swimming season, it is prohibited to wash and bathe animals in Kopli Bay in order to ensure the proper quality of seawater and its safety for human health.
Tallinn City Government proposed a draft climate plan to the City Council, which aims to make the capital climate-neutral by 2050 and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030.