Megacities
“99% of the world’s population live in places where air pollution levels exceed WHO guideline limits”
www.who.int —>Over 6000 cities now monitor air quality in a centralised database by the WHO.
WHO Database —>Prevent disease and health impact by living in healthy environments
WHO Environments —>Polution in cities
European Environment Agency
Cities ranked from the cleanest city to the most polluted, on the basis of average levels of fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, over the past two calendar years.
EEA Database —>
“The world’s cities occupy just 3% of the Earth’s land, but account for 60-80% of energy consumption and 75% of carbon emissions.”
UN Sustainable Development
www.un.org —>Cities account for between 60 and 80% of energy consumption and generate as much as 70% of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.
www.un.org ->90% of urban growth is forecasted to happen in Asia and Africa in the next 30 years.
population.un.org —>Internet
“An estimated 4.9 billion people are using the Internet in 2021, or roughly 63 per cent of the world’s population.”
International Telecommunication Union
www.itu.int —>In 2020, 71 per cent of the world’s youth (aged between 15 and 24 years) were using the Internet, compared with 57 per cent of the other age groups.
www.itu.int —>Share of Internet users in urban areas twice as high as in rural areas
www.itu.int —>
Green Cities
Leading organisations conduct research and make major investments into green cities. People globally strive to realise this vision, so that they too benefit from the quality of life in a green city.
“We have poured more than enough concrete. It’s time to invest in a new type of green infrastructure.”
Kongjian Yu
Dean of Peking University’s College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
16 cities will receive 63 Million USD every year for 4 years to transform into sponge cities to absorb water with new natural methods.
One third of the 1.8 trillion euro European Union budget is invested in the European Green Deal.
To decouple economic growth from resource use and leave no person and no place behind.
“In 2050 about 9.3 billion people will share our planet”
Norway has pledged up to 3 billion NOK a year to help save tropical forests while improving the livelihoods of those who live off, in, and near the forests. An enormous carbon sink, which can provide one-third of the climate change solution over the next 15 years
In the same way that the extractive use of resources has contributed to the loss of natural vegetation, the Sahara Forest Project proposes to use restorative practices to establish vegetation in arid areas and reverse the trend of desertification.
