🇳🇱Netherlands

A prefabricated facade is craned onto an old Dutch housing block, and by the end of the week the flats inside need almost no heating at all.

Dutch company using curtains of bubbles to stop plastic in rivers and canals without blocking boats or wildlife.

An unpaid, unofficial bicycle mayor in 141 cities, each one a citizen with no power except the ability to embarrass the real mayor.

A national Dutch foundation gets residents and city councils competing to pry up paving tiles from front gardens and streets and replace them with plants.

IVN plants tennis-court-sized Tiny Forests on Dutch schoolyards and street corners, turning paved city plots into dense, biodiverse outdoor classrooms.

A Dutch foundation sued its own government over weak climate targets and won a landmark court order to cut emissions faster.

For more than four decades this Dutch foundation has fought for a cleaner, wilder North Sea — and is now turning offshore wind farms into oyster reefs.