ECOCOITES 2013

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Five main themes: the key issues of the sustainable city

 

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Reducing the ecological footprint: water, air, soil, waste, biodiversity,

Addressing the energy challenges of the city: how to decarbonize, reduce consumption and manage the transition,

Strengthening solidarity: solidarity among cities, neighborhoods and individuals,

Organizing the sustainable city: mobility, urban development, decision-making and planning,

Mobilizing enabling factors: a prerequisite for transition in a social, political, cultural and economic context.

http://www.ecocity-2013.com/en/liste-speakers

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Illustration by RIchard Register, Cover of "Ecocities" book

The ECOCITY 2013 program is focusing on four priority challenges for the sustainable city.

 

THINKING: How can we get out of a silo approach? How can we simultaneously address global and local concerns? How do we balance the short term and with the long term?

SHAPING: How can we implement solutions applicable to all cities, beyond testimonials? How can we speed up deployment in a context of crisis?

FINANCING: How can we finance the transition when funding is limited? What economic models and financial instruments can cities adopt?

GOVERNING: How do we engage and combine public and private sectors and form successful partnerships? How do we manage multi-layered regional organization? Above all, how can we achieve greater civic involvement?

he proposals chosen are in line with the spirit of the event and constitute a useful contribution to a set of workable solutions in relation to the current challenges of sustainable cities. The program attempts to answer the four challenges through five major themes that are crucial for today’s cities:

• reducing the environmental footprint
• addressing the energy challenges of the city
• organizing the sustainable city
• strengthening solidarity
• mobilizing enabling factors

The contributors were invited to join forces around their projects in order to «co-build » the response to the challenges. The working group reviewed more than 550 contributions from some 50 countries including the United States, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, China, Morocco, Germany, Australia, Japan and France…

• Plenary sessions,
• Keynote session
• Theatre-style room
• workshop
• round tables
• Vico demonstration
• Global village
• Solutions exhibition and B to B meeting

MoS at EcoCities 2011! : http://moscollective.net/WP/archives/5263