Cool Cities

There are some problem effects our world since the start of the industrial revolution. There are traffic issue, increase amount of CO2, increase of energy consumption, earth environment issue and the rise in the population. If we don’t solve these problems we need another Earth to live. We have to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide by one half which emitted into air to live within the capacity of a single earth.

In Japan during the last 30 years Gross Domestic Product has gone up 100% while energy efficiency has increased 37% and oil consumption has decreased 8%. Most of carbon dioxide emitted into air comes from building and transportation.

Cool City is a model city, propose in the UAE. SDCJ member will build it and they are from Japan. There are three types of transportations that will be used in Cool City: monorail station, light rail transportation and water transportation system. There are six various zones in the city: business and public zone, culture and sport zone, resort zone and residential zone. There are some techniques that will reduce heat: water and trees. They expected that 80% of CO2 will reductions from the two types of buildings.

In conclusion, the overall 60% of reduction CO2 emissions claimed in the video.