The Road to Smart Cities - Jeet Mistry

The Road to Smart Cities:What is required to be globally recognized as a ’smart city’?

Jeet Mistry

Programme Manager, Sustainable Cities, WWF

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World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)Our mission is to stop the degradation of our planet's natural environment, and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

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The Living Planet Report: two global trends

Ecological footprint 1961-2010Biodiversity 1970-2010

Cities as global centres of growth

• Historical correlation between increasing ecological footprints, economic development and urbanization

• Urbanization and lifestyle changes are accelerating

• Consequences of business as usual for the people and the planet are severe

Consequences of BAU already apparent in India

• Per capita emissions levels in India’s seven largest cities is estimated to be at least three times that of WHO standards

• Declining quality of public services (quantity and efficiency)

• Housing deficit with 52,000 slums inhabited by 14 percent of the total urban population.

• Urgent need to transition to a low-carbon development path which can also significantly improve quality of life

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• $350 trillion will be invested in cities during the coming 3 decades

• Cities have huge untapped potential to provide attractive one planet lifestyles

• Egs. Smart urban planning, mobility management, energy efficiency, green buildings, energy transition to renewables

• Engage citizens on benefits of sustainable lifestyle choices

Reinventing the City

• Recurrent invitation to cities to demonstrate their leadership for a renewable energy based sustainable future

• Cities report commitments and actions on carbonn Climate Registry, a platform managed by ICLEI

• Evaluation by high level jury

• Most ambitious city awarded Earth Hour Capital of the year

What is the Earth Hour City Challenge?

Cities register on ICLEI’s carbonn registry

Cities globally have taken up the Challenge

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Rigorous quality control process through an international jury of urban sustainability experts

Martha Delgado (Mexico City)General Director Secretariat of the Global Cities Covenant on Climate

Dan Hoornweg (Toronto)Professor, Energy Systems and Engineering, University of Ontario

Gil-Hong Kim (Manila)Division Director Sustainable Infrastructure, ADB

Aromar Revi (Bangalore)Director, Indian Institute of Human Settlements

Aisa Kacyira (Nairobi)Deputy Executive DirectorAssistant Secretary-GeneralUN-Habitat

Harald Winkler (Cape Town)DirectorEnergy Research CentreUniversity of Cape Town

Jose Manuel Moreno Rodrigues (Toledo)Vice President Group IIIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Adrian Rimmer (Geneva)Chief Executive OfficerThe Gold Standard Foundation

Seth Schultz (New York)Director of Research C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Alexandre Meira da Rosa (Washington D.C)Manager of Infrastructure and Environment Sector, IDB

Pankaj Bhatia (Washington D.C)Deputy DirectorWRI's Climate and Energy Program

Gino van Begin (Bonn)Secretary General ICLEI

Simon Giles (London)Senior Principal Intelligent CitiesAccenture Global

Vancouver – Global Capital 2013

• Ambitious ’Greenest City’ by 2020 Goal

• Successful urban mobility strategy reduced car use

• Engaging communities through Neighbourhood Energy Strategy

• Extended Producer Responsibility Programme

Cape Town – Global Capital 2014

• Pioneering and Integrated Climate Strategy

• Solar Water Heating: targeted 40% of home energy used for water heating

• Large scale retrofitting programmes

• Smart Living community outreach campaign

Seoul – Global Capital 2015

• Sunlight City Project and One Less Nuclear Powerstation campaign

• Eco-Mileage community outreach programme

Cities need support to act

• There are no existing ’smart cities’• Cities require national and global

support• Knowledge sharing and financial

innovation are key• Engaging citizens also crucial

Urban solutions

WWF spotlights win-win-winpractices

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• Expected global investment in cities needs to be re-directed away from BAU fossil-fuel dependent urban development

• …and towards a global transition that can bolster quality of life

• Cities can be global solution hotspots in promoting this transition

• BUT need support at all levels of government while engaging their citizens

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