We live in a century of urbanisation. Millions have moved to cities in the last decades, another 2.7 billion will join till 2050 - creating new urban powerhouses, transforming large cities to megacities and changing villages to world known centres. Cities provide higher living standards and the right turf for innovation; their density and compactness could theoretically lead to efficient and environmentally sound living places. Today however, the consumption patterns of city dwellers and poorly designed infrastructures lead to high GHG emissions and resource use – challenges already felt strongest in Asia, where the majority of these changes are happening.

A POCACITO webinar on urban development in Asia took place on 3 December 2015 from 09:00 to 10:00 CET.

With speakers:

Ying Chen, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of Research Centre for
Sustainable Development (RCSD), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) spoke
about "Low Carbon Pilot Cities in China: Taking Guangyuan as an Example"

and

Kathleen Dematera Contreras, Environment Researcher at Clean Air Asia, spoke
about "Low-emission Initiatives in Philippine Cities"

Moderator: Susanne Langsdorf, Ecologic Institute, Germany, POCACITO Project
Manager