Workshop on City Strategies for Smart Sustainable Climate Solutions

Colocated with ICE 2016 — IEEE International conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation

Date: Wednesday, June 15th 2016, 11:00 — 15:00

Location: Room Lade, Thon Hotel Prinsen, Trondheim, Norway

Overview
Agenda
Organization

Overview

Anthropogenic climate change has a major impact on our lives and challenges us to develop fast, cheap, and sustainable solutions for mitigation actions. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss mitigation and measurement approaches that specifically address cities and city-scale strategies and solutions with a focus on fast and sustainable results. Of special interest are solutions that empirically demonstrate substantial reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in buildings, transport, waste, or other urban infrastructure systems.

We in particular address the following topics:

Technology innovation, Disruptive services
Smart Cities, Smart Energy Grids
ICT- or Data-based climate action and mitigation strategies
Emissions monitoring
GPC emission inventories
Involvement of local decision makers
Bias for fast-to-implement solutions and strategies
Low-carbon Economy, Circular Economy
Combination of existing and available technology
Innovative scalable combinations of low-cost off-the-shelf components
Open source approaches for easier replicability
Citizen involvement, citizen science, crowdsourcing
Paving the way for GHG entrepreneurship
Paths for scaling out to different cities internationally or in the Nordics, and developing countries
Behaviour changes both on a local and global scale
Combination of technical and societal approaches

Agenda

We invite all ICE attendees that are interested in climate strategies and are working on technical or societal solutions. Around the presentations, all attendees are invited to the workshop and can join the discussion sessions.

The programme will feature invited speakers from a range of disciplines that are connected to city-level climate solutions with a high impact. There will be a mix of both practical and theoretical work that shows a bias for action. We will provide ample time for lively discussion. We expect this to showcase interesting ongoing and future research and set the path towards strong mitigation impact.

Workshop date: June 15th 2016

11:00 — 12:30 Session 1: City, Finance, Energy: (10 min) Introduction
(20 min) Simon-James Loveland (Trondheim Kommune)
Trondheim: Emissions free and climate robust: How do we get there from here?
(20 min) Haakon Skar, Odd Jostein Svendsli (T:Lab)
How to accelerate green business development
(20 min) Gabriele Lobaccaro (NTNU)
Urban Environmental Analysis for New and Existing Neighborhoods: Case studies of Trondheim, Milan and Bilbao
(20 min) Discussion session

12:30 — 13:30: Lunch (by main conference)

13:30 — 15:00 Session 2: Smart Cities and Citizens: (20 min) Dirk Ahlers, Patrick Driscoll (NTNU)
Smart Cities and Climate Mitigation
(20 min) Mads Simonsen (Ducky AS)
Engaging Citizens in Climate Awareness
(20 min) Erica Löfström (NTNU)
Eco-Visualization for Climate Awareness
(20 min) Discussion session
(10 min) Closing and Follow-Up

Organization

Workshop Organizers

Dirk Ahlers, Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU — Norwegian University of Science and Technology (dirk.ahlers(at)idi.ntnu.no)
Patrick Arthur Driscoll, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts, NTNU — Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The workshop is supported by NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities, CTT — Carbon Track and Trace, and LoCaL — Low Carbon City Lab of Climate-KIC

Programme Committee

Our PC consists of members from academia and industry:

Dirk Ahlers, NTNU
Patrick Driscoll, NTNU
John Krogstie, NTNU
Erica Löfström, NTNU
Felix Vogel, LSCE
Denis Jorisch, south pole group
Victor Gancel, LoCaL
Chang Deng-Beck, ICLEI World

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