London has been revealed as the 14th greenest capital city in Europe
Eco-friendly, sustainable, ‘green’. These are all buzzwords that every country is working towards, but which of Europe’s capital cities can actually claim to be the best?
Research from comparethemarket.com has looked at Europe’s capital cities to discover the greenest by looking at factors including; water quality, air quality, amount of green spaces, average annual CO2 produced per person and the percent of people using public transport, walking or cycling to work to calculate a normalised score out of 100.
Europe’s top 10 greenest capital cities
|
Rank |
City |
Green spaces score |
Annual mean air pollutants (PM10) |
Water quality score |
% of people who walk, cycle or catch public transport to work |
Average CO2 produced per person annually (kg) |
Past Winners in European Green Capital Awards |
Score /100 |
|
1 |
Copenhagen |
0.2637 |
24 |
83.07 |
82.30% |
374.31 |
Yes |
80.12 |
|
2 |
Stockholm |
0.3777 |
20 |
84.6 |
81.12% |
525.97 |
Yes |
79.35 |
|
3 |
Oslo |
0.4356 |
18 |
85.16 |
70.49% |
670.13 |
Yes |
78.24 |
|
4 |
Bern |
0.5996 |
19 |
86.76 |
59.99% |
489.6 |
No |
74.63 |
|
5 |
Helsinki |
0.3769 |
13 |
85.09 |
78.48% |
404.25 |
No |
73.71 |
|
6 |
Ljubljana |
0.6114 |
26 |
82.58 |
49.99% |
840.54 |
Yes |
71.05 |
|
7 |
Vienna |
0.1738 |
19 |
89.55 |
81.44% |
362.71 |
No |
69.44 |
|
8 |
Berlin |
0.2519 |
23 |
71.06 |
85.12% |
313.69 |
No |
62.54 |
|
9 |
Prague |
0.3692 |
23 |
74.1 |
74.12% |
471.87 |
No |
60.81 |
|
10 |
Amsterdam |
0.2285 |
21 |
75 |
78.65% |
514.85 |
No |
60.60 |
|
14 |
London |
0.1348 |
23 |
58.53 |
82.12% |
452.72 |
No |
49.49 |