2021年10月20日 · Rotterdam has just launched the world’s largest floating office. While the Maldives is building a low-rise city that floats on a flexible urban grid. The World Economic Forum is campaigning for governments, businesses and communities to take urgent action to tackle climate change.

2022年4月29日 · Floating cities and offices are just one solution to the impacts of climate change on coastal communities, but many more challenges face the ocean, and urgent action is needed to address them. The World Economic Forum convenes the Friends of Ocean Action, a coalition of over 70 ocean leaders who are fast-tracking solutions to build a resilient ...

2021年5月19日 · Maldives Floating City is designed to float on top of the water in the lagoon, with the surrounding barrier islands acting as breakers from the waves. Nature and Biodiversity Threatened by rising sea levels, the Maldives is building a floating city

2020年6月3日 · While floating dwellings may prove effective against increased flooding, they may not be an option for some people in poorer parts of the developing world. Rising to the challenge With the global population set to reach 9.8 billion people by mid-century, extreme flooding could further strain limited land, water, food and other resources.

2017年11月24日 · It has constructed more than 200 buildings on water around the world, including these floating villas for a neighborhood called IJburg in Amsterdam, Netherlands: Image: Business Insider Olthius hopes the City App project will provide valuable resources to neighborhoods in developing nations, especially ones threatened by climate change.

2022年12月20日 · The built environment makes up about 40% of total global emissions, so designing sustainable buildings like The Float is essential for the construction and building industry, say experts. Studio RAP, an architecture firm based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has unveiled a project called The Float, a sustainable home that floats on water.

2017年11月22日 · Seattle, Washington is no stranger to ambitious transportation projects. The city is already home to four of the world's longest floating bridges. (Unlike a traditional bridge, a floating one often uses massive pontoons — watertight concrete blocks …

2019年6月27日 · Ding Sansan, deputy chief engineer at the train’s developer CRRC Qingdao Sifang, a subsidiary of the state-owned China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), told the media that a trip from Beijing to Shanghai that takes about four and a half hours by plane, including preparation time for the journey, and about five and a half hours by high …

The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan or …

2019年12月13日 · Turning a problem into a business opportunity, this entrepreneur wants you to spend your next holiday on his floating island made from trash. This tourist attraction brings in 100 visitors a week, where they holiday in style on top of 700,000 plastic bottles.