{"id":2971,"date":"2022-10-28T12:55:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/valencia-sera-la-capital-verde-europea-2024\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T10:58:48","slug":"valencia-sera-la-capital-verde-europea-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/valencia-sera-la-capital-verde-europea-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia, Elsinore, and Velenje win 2024 European Green City Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last night, the winners of the European Green Capital and Leaf 2024 Awards were announced at a ceremony in Grenoble, France, this year\u2019s European Green Capital. The Spanish city of Valencia will become the European Green Capital for 2024 and the title of European Green Leaf 2024 went jointly to Elsinore in Denmark and the Slovenian city of Velenje.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valencia earned the title due to its past and current achievements in the field of sustainable tourism, climate neutrality, as well as fair and inclusive green transition. 97% of city\u2019s inhabitants live within 300 metres of green urban areas. The city has also proven commitment to improving air quality and restoring nature ecosystems, such as the Devesa dune and wetland ecosystems. Valencia also stimulates a healthier, sustainable, and inclusive food production through its \u201cNeighbourhood and Food Programme\u201d. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valencia will be granted a financial prize of EUR 600,000. The prize will support the winning city to implement measures to enhance the city\u2019s environmental sustainability as part of the European Green Capital year 2024. European Green Leaf 2024 winners Elsinore and Velenje will each receive a financial prize of EUR 200,000 to support their efforts. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the winners of the European Green Capital and Leaf 2024 Awards were announced at a ceremony in Grenoble, France, this year\u2019s European Green Capital. The Spanish city of Valencia will become the European Green Capital for 2024 and the title of European Green Leaf 2024 went jointly to Elsinore in Denmark and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[705,688,621],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-european-green-capital","tag-european-green-deal","tag-valencian-community"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-05 18:50:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guiafc.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}