ICLEI Links: 8 May 2015

Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! Thanks to all on Twitter and elsewhere for sharing.

ICLEI Stories

Metropolitan Solutions to feature innovative Lounge Talks for city-business networking

Doornkop Renewable Energy Expo a huge success

City Stories

Maple Shade, Southampton townships awarded grants to become more earth friendly

Driverless Cars and Public Transit Would Cut Traffic By 90% – OECD

The smog reducing electronic vacuum cleaner

Energy Stories

Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform and the Road to Paris (VIDEO)

Raise a glass to neat ideas for more eco-friendly whisky

Team of students from UNSW close to creating Australia’s first road legal solar sports car

Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels (VIDEO)

Climate Change Stories

Bringing mangroves back as defenders of climate change impacts

In the Marshall Islands, everything is climate change

Don’t mention climate change! Europe’s response to the refugee crisis is doomed to fail

UNDP: Nepal – A lesson in the risks climate change poses to disaster-prone countries – Opinion

Global carbon dioxide levels break 400ppm milestone