Heather Allen, Median SRL | New Ways to Achieve Gender Equality in Transport
A growing body of evidence points to the differences between men and women travel patterns and mode usage. While it is common to consider urban transport to be gender-neutral, transport planning is unconsciously biased towards traditional male travel patterns and modes. What are the structural gender differences and mobility patterns resulting from them? How can they be best taken into account by cities and urban planners?
Benjamin Büttner | Accessibility and Inclusiveness: Drivers of New Urban Mobility
Debates on the inclusiveness of urban space have been gaining attention with compelling mobility concepts such as the 15mn city. Centred around principles such as accessibility, proximity, or tactical urbanism, these concepts call for an overhaul of how public space is distributed in cities – and could completely reset urban mobility systems. How far are cities from implementing this vision? What are priorities areas that should be addressed to get there? What opportunities can be expected from street redesign and public realm transformations?
Are power grids ready for zero-emission mobility?
Are power grids ready for mobility without emissions? How we are preparing for a Zero Emissions world? Is there any risk of blackouts?
How Taiwan wants to turn its metro stations into vertical farms
We look at Taiwan’s vertical farm model at subway stations. Cost, results and food production. Do they reduce the island’s dependence on imported food?
How Eswatini became the country with the highest HIV prevalence in the world and what is it doing about it
Eswatini, a small African country covering an area of just 17,3641 km² and with a population of 1,148,130, located between South Africa and Mozambique, has the sad record of being the country with the most cases of human immunodeficiency virus in the world. But it also reached another positive milestone: It is the first African state to meet the UN’s 2030 targets on HIV/Aids.
Qatar’s lavish World Cup Stadiums
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has sparked both passion and controversy. The sporting event has been held amid a complex and not so favorable reality. The eight spectacular stadiums built for the event are an example of these contradictions.
What is the Anthropocene and what are its main challenges
The Anthropocene defines Earth’s new period, one in which human activity is changing the environment at such a speed that it is not able to recover its previous state. Cities have a key role to play in a sustainable Anthropocene, and in a human race with a future.
BlueTech Innovation: Technology Meets Sustainability
This session will show some cutting-edge examples of startups implementing technology for ocean sustainability. An overview of different nature-based solutions to tackle some of the most important challenges we are facing to reach a sustainable development, as well as a restoration of ocean natural capital.
How Can Society Get Involved with the Ocean and its Sustainability?
Cities around the world are already urging the necessity of tackling the effects of the climate emergency. Coastal areas are even more vulnerable as their damages are evident: rising sea levels and temperature, acidification, plastic pollution, etc. What are the most urgent challenges we are facing? How can coastal cities become resilient? What will it take? What is the role citizens play? This session aims to answer these and more questions by combining ecology, scientific understanding and awareness efforts to make society become part of the solution through education and engagement.
Emily Penn: Navigating Our Way Towards A Plastic-Free Ocean
Emily Penn, skipper and ocean advocate, will share her adventures of a decade at sea. From rounding the globe on a record-breaking bio-fuelled boat to discovering oceanic “gyres” – huge areas of plastic accumulation. Emily co-founded eXXpedition on a mission to help people understand the true problem of ocean plastic pollution, so they can use their skills to solve it from sea to source.