Glimpses 2011
Smart Cities.
Smart Sustainability
January 22, 2012
Since 2008, more than half of the world’s population is living in urban areas. This urbanization trend is continuously rising and can have significant impacts on our human and natural capital: fossil energies consumptions, transports’ greenhouse gases and pollutants emissions, water consumption, waste production, biodiversity destruction… A sustainable city has limited impacts on the environment: it reduces energy and resources consumptions, carbon emissions, biodiversity destruction…
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Cleantech
Track
January 22, 2012
The main objective of this track is to enable existing and upcoming cities to solve the fundamental problem of energy and waste in a way that would restore our environment and society. We will try to derive solutions that address the challenges of consumer demand and production supply with a net positive impact.
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Social Business
Track
January 22, 2012
Positive Cities will not only need to maximize sustainability but also to guarantee access for every citizen to their basic needs: access to education, water and food. This panel will focus on lightening the solutions to combine a smart city with a high quality of life for the citizens.
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Infrastructure
and Mobility Track
January 22, 2012
Large investments in sustainable infrastructure are necessary in order to turn urban areas into Positive Cities. This track will focus on the different ways of generalizing positive infrastructures in the city and financing them. It deals with questions like how to industrialize the positive city and smart mobility and what kind of partnerships can be developed between public and private sectors to finance smart cities.
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