{"id":16749,"date":"2021-11-18T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T09:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/?p=16749"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:52:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T09:52:30","slug":"ljubljana-named-the-european-best-green-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/ljubljana-named-the-european-best-green-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Ljubljana named the European Best Green Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ljubljana was the holder of the European Green Capital<\/a> title in 2016. This year again, organisation European Best Destinations (EBD)<\/a> ranked Ljubljana number one among the 20 Best Green Capitals in Europe<\/strong>. The jury evaluated several aspects of sustainabilty, from air and water quality, public tarnsport with zero CO2 emissions, green spaces per inhabitant, percentage of people who walk, cycle or take public transport to work, quality of life and the number of kilometers of cycle paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The jury highlighted\u00a0Ljubljana\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0extensive green surfaces with 542 square meters per capita, what makes for the highest percentage of green space per\u00a0habitant<\/a>\u00a0in Europe, as well as the quality of Ljubljana\u2019s air and water. Also the management of public transport and cycling routes weren\u2019t unnoticed, and thus, the jury named Ljubljana a cyclist-friendly city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ljubljana was also\u00a0praised<\/a>\u00a0by jury for its natural tourism and\u00a0options<\/a>\u00a0for active holiday, and for its highest level (up to 70%) of separation of household waste in the EU. Particulary activities that impressed the jury were also the fact that Ljubljana\u2019s city centre has been\u00a0car-free<\/a>\u00a0already since 2008, as well as the fact that the city provides its citizens and visitors a free access to a rental bicycle system for up to an hour at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the main advantages of Ljubljana, the jury in its final evaluation pointed out the whole\u00a0sustainable orientation<\/a>\u00a0of the Ljubljana and its region as a\u00a0 tourist destination. As Ljubljana has been already recognised for its green character\u00a0many times<\/a>, the jury also pointed out its\u00a0Bee Trail<\/a>with more than\u00a04,500 beehives<\/a>\u00a0operating throughout the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With winning the title of the European Best Green Capital, Ljubljana received exposure on the first European website for the promotion of tourism\u00a0www.europeanbestdestinations.com<\/a>, and was featured in the American magazine\u00a0Forbes USA<\/a>. This is the second praise for Slovenia and its capital in the last ten days. Recently, \u00a0Lonely Planet<\/a>\u00a0named the\u00a0world\u2019s Top 10 Destinations To Visit in 2022<\/strong>\u00a0and placed\u00a0Slovenia in 5th<\/sup>\u00a0place<\/strong>, together with its \u2018buzzy capital of Ljubljana\u2019, as quoted by\u00a0CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ljubljana was the holder of the European Green Capital title in 2016. This year again, organisation European Best Destinations (EBD) ranked Ljubljana number one among the 20 Best Green Capitals in Europe. The jury evaluated several aspects of sustainabilty, from air and water quality, public tarnsport with zero CO2 emissions, green spaces per inhabitant, percentage of people who walk, cycle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bureau-news","category-member-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16750,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions\/16750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}