Thursday 3 November at 9.00 a.m. CET.
"Creating Net Zero Community" : A Metropolis Learning Hub Webinar
For city leaders looking to make an impact on climate change, scale is a big challenge.
One-off projects — retrofitting an old building for energy efficiency, for example — can be very achievable but may not move the needle much on a city’s greenhouse-gas emissions. On the other hand, tackling entire energy grids or transport networks at a citywide or metropolitan scale are complex to plan and execute.
That’s why a growing number of Metropolis member cities, from Barcelona to Chengdu to Bogotá to Toronto, are looking at the neighbourhood, district, or community level as a focus for their climate efforts. They think neighbourhoods might be the perfect scale — not too big and not too small — for cities to slash emissions to zero, or close to it.
The webinar will feature municipal leaders from Chengdu, China, who started building 10 near-net-zero communities in March, with plans to start another 20 by the end of this year. In addition, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group will present experiences from other global cities, as well as key lessons from the organisation’s new guidebook for creating green and thriving neighbourhoods, developed with the design and engineering firm Arup.
Register for the webinar here.