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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

Corporate Knights

In a highly symbolic move, she had the highway that ran along the left bank of the Seine converted into 4.5 In 2002, Annika Billström, the first female mayor of Stockholm, committed what was expected to be political suicide by proposing a congestion charge on all vehicles entering the inner city. hectares of pedestrian-only greenspace.