The Sustainability Challenge

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Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities

864 calificaciones

Lund University

Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities

864 calificaciones

How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures? This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban transformation refers to structural transformation processes – multi-dimensional and radical change – that can effectively direct urban development towards ambitious sustainability and climate goals. We will connect the key trends of urbanization, decarbonisation and sustainability. We will examine visions, experiments and innovations in urban areas. We will look at practices (what is happening in cities at present) and opportunities (what are the possibilities for cities going forwards into the future). We bring together a collection of diverse short films and key short readings on sustainable cities as well as interactive forums and a practical assignment to create an online learning community. This course provides key examples of activities to promote sustainable cities in Scandinavia, Europe and around the world. We utilize films and reports by WWF, the Economist Intelligence Unit, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, UN-Habitat, C40 Climate Leadership Group, Arup, Sustainia, the Rockefeller Foundation, and ongoing research projects. This course is produced by Lund University in cooperation with WWF and ICLEI. It is available for free to everyone, everywhere! The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University is an international centre of excellence on sustainable solutions. The IIIEE is ideally suited to understand and explain the interdisciplinary issues in sustainable cities and greening the economy utilising the diverse disciplinary backgrounds of its international staff. The IIIEE has been researching and teaching on sustainable solutions since the 1990s and it has extensive international networks connecting with a variety of organizations. 5 hours/week 5 weeks duration 30 films 10 teachers

De la lección

Sustainable Urban Lifestyles

By studying this module you can gain an increased knowledge and a deeper understanding of the relationship between sustainable urban lifestyles and sustainable cities.

Sustainable Urban Lifestyles9:26

WWF and Sustainable Cities10:04

Cities and the Sharing Economy12:47

The Sustainability Challenge6:33

WWF Consumption1:55

ICLEI Joint Climate Action in Joondalup, Australia1:05

The Green Urban - Part V6:16

Conoce a los instructores

Dr. Kes McCormick
Associate Professor
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Prof. Lena Neij
Professor and Director
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Prof. James Evans
Visiting Researcher
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Prof. Harriet Bulkeley
Visiting Researcher
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

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The world's population has just tipped 7 billion having doubled in the last

40 years.

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But even if population growth begins to stabilize, there's still a big task ahead

in making sure that we can all access the basics of life including energy.

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In this report, the economist intelligence unit looks at why innovation and

education for sustainable development are vital tools for the future.

With almost the growth in energy consumption occurs in developing

countries, such as China and

India developed countries still consume much more energy per capita.

By 2035,

per capita demand in China will still be less than half of the United States.

What does this mean for our development path?

In our current development path is totally unsustainable and we know that.

And we know that we need to change our development paths towards something else,

something different.

Really if I was to put it in what really needs to happen,

we probably need a century of sustainability.

I mean, this is what we're talking about.

I mean, that's the kind of change that needs to take place.

In 2014 the UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development is concluded.

I think the main achievements have been that we

actually have had indicated that have put education for

sustainable development at the agenda in all nations in the world.

It's a good start for reaching out, but there is a huge need for educational

programs and we need to improve and enlarge and to reach out much better.

We need to educate in all levels.

We need to educate our kids.

We need to educate at the universities.

We need to educate people out working in different fields.

Education for sustainable development is not a subject area or

a discipline at the heart of education of sustainable development is

the idea to integrate learning about sustainable ability into all

forms of education from preschool to university.

We want to educate a new generation of sustainable citizens.

When we deal with the youngest, we have a lot of focus on playing,

but also giving respect for the nature and its resources.

And when they become 8th to 12th,

we will try to get into what is the real problem and

then we also work with them in terms of discussing

with them what kind of future do they want.

What are the most promising energy technologies to enable sustainable

development?

According to the International Energy Agency, renewables and nuclear power

will account for more than half of the energy capacity added through to 2035.

In order to meet the goals of sustainability,

we need new energy technologies.

I also think what we have seen for a number of years in the development of

wind, the development of solar is very interesting.

Small scale technologies where we can see rapid cost decrease and

also a relatively rapid market development.

I do not believe that they'll be one

a single technology that will solve everything.

Of course in very many parts of the world, concentrated solar power will

be able to play a much, much, much larger role and changed the energy system there.

What would I do believe in is that you take the local perspective and

then you take many different technologies and

add them together in a system, in a sustainable system.

But we shouldn't only talk about supply,

it's also very much about how we use energy.

There are a number of technologies related to a more efficient energy so

we need to focus on our supply and demand.

In some way, I think that the big businesses have a lot of resources.

And without them, we cannot move forward.

They are so powerful, but on the other hand, we also know that the market

orientation means that they would go for where they can earn the money best.

I believe that it is a shared responsibility.

Unfortunately, I do not see the government as particularly brave right now.

But then when I look at cities, I see cities like Berlin,

I see cities like Seoul, I see cities like Copenhagen,

really taking serious measurements to address this problem.

City governments or local governments unlike national governments are not

constrained in the same way.

They can move much faster and they can implement many different types of

legislation and some, which can be really important to maintaining sustainability.

And I think China and India who are developing very fast and

have very large populations and they are fully aware of the impacts and

the challenges that they're facing.

China is actually working heavily on sustainability and trying to build more

sustainable cities, trying to develop renewable energy technologies.

They're shifting towards electric vehicles as fast as they can.

The megacities we see are exploding all over the world.

It's a huge challenge, of course.

But in another way, you can say, if we should live sustainable with so

many people in the world, we need to do it in big cities and

I think that the challenge is to build these cities to be sustainable systems.

The way forward is not to scare people.

Sir Richard Branson, who we all know is of course a billionaire and

invests in many different industries,

said at a conference when he was talking about sustainability that

Martin Luther King didn't say I have a nightmare, he said I have a dream.

We're only gonna get people onboard if we can present possible futures and

visions that are just desirable and that are really exciting.

And I think we need people like Richard Branson and others in the business

community kind of step forward and bring that kind of innovative thinking and

that creativity, and that drive, and that ability to lead people.

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