{"id":119017,"date":"2019-03-07T16:43:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=119017&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-03-14T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T02:22:45","slug":"kitakyushu-places-second-among-japans-sustainable-cities","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kitakyushu-places-second-among-japans-sustainable-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitakyushu Places Second Among Japan\u2019s Sustainable Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its nationwide survey of 815 municipalities, Nikkei Shimbun ranked Kitakyushu second in terms of sustainability and promoting the OECD\u2019s sustainable development goals (SDGs). It praised the city&#8217;s efforts to encourage the export of environmental technologies in conjunction with locally based companies. Kitakyushu has been undertaking initiatives aimed at achieving the SDGs, and the survey highly rated the city, which the national government has designated an SDGs Future City, as a \u201cmodel among world cities for achieving the SDGs.\u201d <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/fiba.jp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fiba.jp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1920px-Train_of_Kitakyushu_Monorail_arriving_at_Kokura_Station.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1920px-Train_of_Kitakyushu_Monorail_arriving_at_Kokura_Station.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1920px-Train_of_Kitakyushu_Monorail_arriving_at_Kokura_Station.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1920px-Train_of_Kitakyushu_Monorail_arriving_at_Kokura_Station.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1920px-Train_of_Kitakyushu_Monorail_arriving_at_Kokura_Station.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Kokura_Station#\/media\/File:Train_of_Kitakyushu_Monorail_arriving_at_Kokura_Station.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u305d\u3089\u307f\u307f<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its nationwide survey of 815 municipalities, Nikkei Shimbun ranked Kitakyushu second in terms of sustainability and promoting the OECD\u2019s sustainable development goals (SDGs). It praised the city&#8217;s efforts to encourage the export of environmental technologies in conjunction with locally based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":119018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-119017","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/119017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}