Climate Plan: Starter Pack For A Big City | Futureproofed
Big cities are engines of culture, community, and innovation. They are the natural leaders who can grasp the climate opportunity to enhance the liveability of their citizens. How can they build a climate plan that takes their leadership to the next level?
Climate plan challenges of a big city 🏙️
Big cities (here defined as cities with more than 200k inhabitants) face enormous pressure from rapid urbanization. Land — and other resources such as water or food — are under constant competition. Yet, big cities have what it takes to take the lead on climate action.
Internally (big) city teams struggle to demonstrate climate plans’ urgency and push them through the ever-changing political agenda. In this landscape, competing priorities are always on the horizon. On top of this, big cities have many other plans, policies, budgets… And cross-sectoral collaboration might be hard to seize.
Big cities offer the perfect seedbed for innovation, especially when it comes to their climate plan. Many technological and social innovations are already happening every day in the streets. Yet, city teams can’t keep track of all the innovations and might miss the chance to upscale quality ideas.
Start by scaling up the measures of our starter pack for a medium city. Those measures are mature and bring substantial economic savings to your citizens. Then, let the real challenge for big cities begin. Let’s focus on impactful actions to take your big city to the next level in each sector:
Mobility 🚲
The focus of mobility in big cities should be simple: connect as many dots as possible. Supply local needs and use soft mobility as much as possible. Public transport is preferred over private transport, and ultimately a technological shift to electric vehicles is advised.
🏗️ Scale-up:
🚀 Support further development:
(* = measure currently being developed in our database)
Buildings (households and tertiary) 🏢
Big cities often face heterogeneous building conditions. One thing is sure: climate plan measures can save energy bills for both households and businesses. Additionally, these measures can bring extra comfort and property value.
🏗️ Scale-up:
🚀 Support further development:
- Solar water heaters. This measure ensures installing a solar water heater for sanitary warm water instead of a natural gas boiler.
- Cool, reflective roofs (tertiary). This measure stimulates building owners to improve the Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) of their roofs.
- Balanced ventilation (tertiary). This measure ensures the installation of balanced ventilation in businesses.
Originally published at https://blog.futureproofed.com.
