World Urban Campaign : A GREEN CITY

Build environmentally sound and carbon efficient cities.
The way we plan and design our cities now will have significant implications for how resilient, resource efficient and environmentally sound they are in the future. A green city means promoting sustainable development through a carbon efficient built environment. If new housing stock and upgraded slums fail to be the most energy efficient and sustainable as possible, cities faces multi-decade lock-in of escalating energy consumption which may aggravate economic, social and environmental challenges.

WHAT WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN PARTNERS DO TOWARDS A GREEN CITY

Good Practices

Learn here about good practices and actions towards a green city.

Enabling Legislation

Learn here about legislation towards a green city.

Tools and Methods

Learn here about tools and methods that enable urban policy-makers and practitioners to better plan, build, manage and measure impacts towards a green city.

Good Policies

Learn here about good policies that have shown successful results at the national, regional and city levels and enabled decision-makers to tackle urban challenges and deliver positive change to citizens towards a green city.

Energy use in buildings and housing account for roughly 40 per cent of all energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions around the world.
For instance, in Indonesia about 40 per cent of total energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions are due to energy consumption in residential buildings which is roughly the same percentage in highly developed countries such as the United States at 35 per cent total energy consumption from buildings.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a 29 per cent reduction in energy consumption in buildings is technically attainable by the year 2020 at no cost to society.
These cost saving and attainable measures would avoid approximately 5 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade.

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