Ecocity Summit 2023

The Ecocity Summit 2023 is dedicated to urban design and cities development in balance with the natural world and sustainability.

Key Topics

• Climate Action
  • Working within ecological limits and systems interdependence
  • Urban alignment with ecosystem services
  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  • Role of city as interface between climate action and impacts
  • Resilience and adaptation across the spectrum of biophysical conditions (air, water, soil, resources/materials, energy, food)
  • Accounting for consumption-based emissions (not just production)
  • Clean technology solutions for efficient and renewable energy
  • International migration resulting from dislocation of people (climate refugees)
  • Community mobilization for one-planet living
• Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Cities
  • Biomimicry and regenerative design
  • Building and operating cities in balance with nature
  • Equitable access to resources needed to live a dignified life
  • Managing human impacts to ensure ecological integrity is maintained
  • Using intelligence of design to create sustainable solutions
  • Reconciling benefit-takers with cost-bearers in resource consumption and development
  • Role of the public realm to support community participation and development
• Informal Solutions for Sustainable Development
  • Role of informal settlements as spaces of innovation to drive solutions for climate action, adaptation to environmental risk, access to shelter and services
  • Limited administrative capacity to respond to multitude of issues
  • Support for participating in decisions
  • Recognizing, capturing and engaging spontaneous solutions for sustainability and resilience
  • Permaculture in practice
  • Evolution of healthy culture in lifestyles and behaviours
• Circular Economy
  • Increasing opportunity while reducing absolute energy and material flows (decoupling)
  • Changing assumptions about economic processes that help or hinder prosperity
  • Sharing and repurposing things through new socio-economic pathways
  • Bending the urban metabolism
  • Bioregional approaches to local provisioning