Moving Mobility Sustainably Forward

Cities globally are seeking new strategies to make urban landscapes greener, healthier, and more sustainable for inhabitants and visitors. Speakers pointed to mobility as a key factor that can help achieve these outcomes, and provided examples of best-practice transport-related solutions that are already making marked improvements for city-dwellers. See also Ride the New Eco-Roadways.

Cutting-Edge Clean Air Imperatives

Air pollution is a major health hazard that needs urgent attention in order to safeguard the health of millions of citizens across the planet, especially as wildfires threaten to wipe out decades of clean air progress. Towards this end, innovative tech start-ups are conjuring transformational systems, tools and apps that promise to deliver healthier air.

Nature Meets Tech

Forward-thinking brands, businesses and governments are recognising the major role that nature itself plays in the fight against climate change – in particular, by absorbing carbon emissions from the atmosphere. Acknowledging this, experts emphasised how ‘natural capital’ (the world’s stocks of natural assets like geology, soil, air and water) must be preserved and cherished.

Scaling Sustainable Digital Systems

Speakers were keen to drive home the message that every digital product – be it an app, physical device or even a Google search – has a carbon footprint, thanks to the energy it consumes. Brands must step up to the challenge of accounting for this usage, and find ways to minimise and/or offset these emissions.

Affordable + Green Housing: The ‘Zero-Bills’ Home

Energy-efficient accommodation can reduce global carbon emissions while providing individuals and families with nourishing, clean and welcoming spaces to live. Enter the ‘Zero Bills’ home, where access to green energy eliminates utilities payments – a potential housing solution that ticks both the affordability and sustainability boxes. For bigger thinking around this topic, see Tech-Positive Societies.