As the acceleration of climate change becomes more prominent, major cities across the world are feeling obliged to step-up and support carbon reduction efforts. As the world came to a stop over a year ago, the cleaner cities were shared on news outlets globally and the astonishment to locals and foreigners was well received. There’s a clear consensus that there’s an opportunity to sustain and not return to pre-pandemic levels. As a result, authorities in the French capital are targeting 70,000 on-street parking spots to free up space.

Zero cars, zero streets and zero carbon emissions, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is launching a new eco-city called ‘The Line’ - the Prince stated that we need to transform the concept of a conventional city into that of a futuristic one. The zero carbon city is Saudi Arabia’s futuristic business hub which will be set along the Red Sea coast. So what will ‘The Line’ include? It’s suspected that ‘The Line’ will have capacity for one million people with the usual facilities such as schools, health centres and green spaces.

Two entrepreneurs from Mexico have crafted an eco-friendly leather by developing a method of transforming cacti into a vegan leather. Marte Cázarez and Adrián López Velarde are on a mission to disrupt the $80 billion industry for leather by replicating to a high standard that is indistinguishable from the original. The entrepreneurs leveraged the cacti growing on their plantation in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, to create what they’ve called Desserto.