CISCO Summit Day 1 - Afternoon Session
December 09, 2007 by Chris | permalink
the afternoon session was opened by Bas Boorsma and Wolfgang Wagener who are part of te Connected Urban Development project which is a joint commitment between CISCO and three cities [Seoul, Amsterdam, San Francisco] to investigate ways in which to reduce CO2 emissions. It is really all about.
80% of emissions are due to cities which means that there is a large responsibility to take action. Both believe that if we can do a better job with connectivity and transparency of information then we can indeed make inroads into this.
the city of stockholm then gave a comment. she talked about the beauty and cleanliness of the environment here. they will have a system which will allow one to look at the air quality, street-by-street, on an hour-by-hour basis soon. 80% of houses in the city are part of the district heating program. about the same percentage is used to convert to heat. a large percentage of the energy is emission free and there is a goal to increase this. 381 ethonol and 50 bio busses.
