“European Green Capital.” For Valencia, this title – which the EU Commission has been annually bestowing on cities for ecological efforts since 2010 – is long overdue. After Tallinn last year, Grenoble in 2022 and Lahti in 2021, this year is now the one for recognising the environmental efforts of Spain’s third-largest city. The official opening festivities take place January 11 and 12, kicking off a programme of 400 events. Antonia García, Valencia’s director-general for the Green Capital, gladly looks back to how it got started. A few decades ago, the city planners converted the dried-out Tu…