Ays Sirakaya

Urban agriculture: Not just for hipsters 0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 11/03/2016
Growing food in urban areas can bring resilience to our food, our environment and our cities.
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Are all biofuels evil?0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 30/01/2016
Biofuels have been a matter of conflict in the EU policy agenda. Until recently, the EU had an “unlimited” biofuel production policy which was heavily criticised by NGOs like Oxfam, Greenpeace or political faces like the Green Party of the European Parliament. But not all biofuels deserve their criticism.
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Climate change, cities and heat waves: how soon is now?3
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 05/01/2016
On a hot summer day city dwellers rely mainly on unsustainable adaptation solutions like energy-hungry air conditioning, which make our cities not only greyer, but contribute significantly to climate change. Green adaptation solutions can help save energy and mitigate the worst effects of climate change – now!
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SDGs and Urban Biodiversity: Protecting rats and pigeons?0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 26/12/2015
The freshly released Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) please ecologists: Unlike the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs have ‘environment’ firmly enshrined in almost half of the 17 Goals. And yet Goal 15 on biodiversity loss makes us grin to a certain extent, as it seems to assume that nature can only be found on the countryside.
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