Smart City Expo World Congress
07/11/2023
Creating a Net Zero Community
Online
Metropolis Learning Hub Chengdu with the support of C40 and Chengdu’s Municipal Commission for Urban and Rural Community Development and Management organised a session which seeked to provide knowledge on how to design good public policies to help foster favourable climate for green transition and guidelines that help grass-root communities navigate their way to net zero transition. This session had speakers from C40, Chengdu and Madrid.
For more information, you can read the programme of the event.
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Working towards the 2030 peaking goal and long-term carbon neutrality China's national goal, local governments have a critical role to play in helping to implement policies on the ground and establishing an enabling environment for stakeholders to increase contributions to net-zero.
To achieve peaking and carbon neutrality goals, and explore a near-net-zero solution that adapts to local conditions, the city of Chengdu released the Work Plan for Pilot Near-Net-Zero Communities in March 2022, targeting to create 10 near-net-zero communities in 2022 and 30 more by the end of 2025.
In July 2022, Chengdu joins hands with C40’s Green and Thriving Neighbourhoods Network. The two parties, together with the Science and Technology and Industrialisation Development Centre of China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, will work jointly on a pilot net zero community project in Chengdu.
On the eve of the COP27, Metropolis Learning Hub Chengdu with the support of C40 and Chengdu’s Municipal Commission for Urban and Rural Community Development and Management organised a webinar under the tittle " Pathways to Near-Net-Zero Communities", a way to address climate change not only a local and neighbourhood level.
The objective of the session was to provide knowledge on how to design good public policies to help foster favourable climate for green transition and guidelines that help grass-root communities navigate their way to net zero transition. That is exactly what Luke Sherlock from C40 Cities pre-recorded video message was meant to: providing 5 key elements to make urban public space accessible, inclusive, cohesive and green and so to harness for low carbon urban development.
On the other hand, Chengdu representatives presented its initiatives at the neighbourhood scale such as "Chengdu’s Near-net-zero Initiative at Community Scale" and "Chengdu’s low-carbon programme within the framework of Park City Initiative, featuring complete neighbourhoods and the 15-minute city"
On the European side, Madrid presented the Madrid 360 Environmental Sustainability Strategy and how private and public transport modes are being changed to reduce emissions and to return public space to the people.
For more information, you can read the programme and watch the recording of the event.
Related resources
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The future of metropolises is based on their capacity to be resilient to resist the challenges the world will experience in the next decades. Climate change, migrations, electric mobility transition… Cities must be prepared for what has to come and search for solutions and opportunities that will let them overcome these problems.
Climate change is one of the main drivers that is accelerating transformations in metropolitan spaces. Migrations due to ecological disasters in vulnerable regions are attracting people to cities where there are more opportunities to live, but this also grows problems that already exist in urban areas, like pollution, access to housing or scarcity of water.
Claiming social cohesion in growing multicultural societies, health problems derived from contamination, mobility between regions or droughts and floods due to weather changes are not only responsibilities of metropolises, so they must determine, according to their interests and limitations, how they can address them and who they have to work with, if regional actors, boundary municipalities, or both.
Collaboration between cities with similar challenges, monitoring the possible problems and financing reliable arrangements are some of the key elements that metropolises have to take a look into to endure the next years, solutions that the network 100 Resilient Cities describe in the third publication from the Issue Paper series.
Climate change is one of the main drivers that is accelerating transformations in metropolitan spaces. Migrations due to ecological disasters in vulnerable regions are attracting people to cities where there are more opportunities to live, but this also grows problems that already exist in urban areas, like pollution, access to housing or scarcity of water.
Claiming social cohesion in growing multicultural societies, health problems derived from contamination, mobility between regions or droughts and floods due to weather changes are not only responsibilities of metropolises, so they must determine, according to their interests and limitations, how they can address them and who they have to work with, if regional actors, boundary municipalities, or both.
Collaboration between cities with similar challenges, monitoring the possible problems and financing reliable arrangements are some of the key elements that metropolises have to take a look into to endure the next years, solutions that the network 100 Resilient Cities describe in the third publication from the Issue Paper series.
Speakers
- Ms. Li Li, Vice Director General, Chengdu Foreign Affairs Office
- Mr. Lei Ke Vice-Director, Commission for Urban-Rural Community Development and Governance of CPC Chengdu Municipal Committee
- Mr. Luke Sherlock, C40 Director of Urban Planning & Design
- Ms. Yao Nan, Deputy chief engineer of Chengdu Planning and Design Institute
- Lola Ortiz Sánchez, General Director of Mobility Planning and Infrastructures, Madrid City Council
- Mr. Jordi Vaquer, Secretary General of Metropolis
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Sustainability and climate change
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On-line training program on Resilient City (2nd edition)
Online
In collaboration with UCLG, UCLG-ASPAC, and the SHRDC as MITI HQ, we organised a Learning Program on "Resilient City", which provided various e-learning contents and diverse policy cases with active discussions among the participants.
Contents
More than half of the world’s population resides in urban and metropolitan areas, and cities have experienced rapid growth and urbanization. The local governments have to endure the threats and vulnerabilities as a result. Thus, strategic disaster risk reduction and response measures are critical for the sustainability. However, resilience is about more than natural disasters. It should incorporate a holistic perspective that covers social, economic, and climate dimensions, as well.
The Sendai Framework, adopted at the Third UN World Conference in Disaster Risk Reduction, recognizes the need for improved understanding of disaster risk, the strengthening of disaster risk governance, and the mobilization of risk sensitive investment to reduce natural and social risks and to support the vulnerable.
You can consult the guidebook of the programme here
During the second live session of this training program, we explored the concept "Resilient City" as well as the three dimensions of resilience: climate, economic and social.
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