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Future Cities Advisory Outlook 2023: Digital Innovations Empower Urban Net-Zero Carbon Transition

UN-Habitat

Published 2023

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The report summarizes 6 main scenarios of digital technologies that applied to achieve urban net-zero carbon transition including urban building and housing, urban mobility, urban water, urban waste and circularity, urban energy and carbon management; it also provide a roadmap for cities and enterprises to achieve net-zero carbon from mastering carbon data, formulating carbon strategies and smart carbon actions. The 10 good practice cases exploring net-zero carbon development, from strategic planning, community governance, industrial park management, low-carbon buildings development, low-carbon transportation and other aspects to provide other cities around the world with Chinese solutions for urban net zero carbon transition. At the same time, the report also issued a global urban digital net zero carbon action initiative, calling for the urban net-zero carbon transition through the application of digital technology.

Abstract

The report summarizes 6 main scenarios of digital technologies that applied to achieve urban net-zero carbon transition including urban building and housing, urban mobility, urban water, urban waste and circularity, urban energy and carbon management; it also provide a roadmap for cities and enterprises to achieve net-zero carbon from mastering carbon data, formulating carbon strategies and smart carbon actions. The 10 good practice cases exploring net-zero carbon development, from strategic planning, community governance, industrial park management, low-carbon buildings development, low-carbon transportation and other aspects to provide other cities around the world with Chinese solutions for urban net zero carbon transition. At the same time, the report also issued a global urban digital net zero carbon action initiative, calling for the urban net-zero carbon transition through the application of digital technology.

Topics

Case StudyHCI-HBIReview PaperSmart Building Systems and IoT IntegrationSustainable Buildingscircular economyembodied carbonsustainable constructionsustainable disassembly

Cite this paper

@misc{c13e3af6,
	author = {UN-Habitat},
	title = {Future Cities Advisory Outlook 2023: Digital Innovations Empower Urban Net-Zero Carbon Transition},
	howpublished = {\url{https://unhabitat.org/future-cities-advisory-outlook-2023}},
	year = {2023},
	note = {[Accessed 12-11-2025]},
}