The Ecocity Summit 2023 is dedicated to urban design and cities development in balance with the natural world and sustainability.
The Ecocity Summit 2023 covers topics such as:
- 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