Future Megacities in Balance – New Alliances for Energy- and Climate-Efficient Solutions

Conference Documents

• Brochure on Megacities (9.2 MB)
• Who is Who (2 MB)
• Programme (7.5 MB)
• Conference Session Descriptions: Fact Sheets (3.1 MB)

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Keynotes, Panels and Sessions of Oktober 11th

• Dr. Michael Sutcliffe: Durban’s Municipal Climate Protection Programme (2.7 MB)

• Prof. Miranda A. Schreurs: Climate Politics in the Megacities of Today and Tomorrow (488 KB)
• Prof. Elke Pahl-Weber: Challenging Areas for Megacity Development – Energy, Resources, Planning, Mobility, Governance and Finance (346 KB)
• Dr. Michael Lindfield: The ADB Perspective (1.8 MB)
• Dr. Rao Chelikani: New Strategies of Civil Society Action Plan (216 KB)

• Mr Sebastian Lange: Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings in East Africa (1.6 MB)
• Mr Lars Waldmann: Whatever the Future Holds (909 KB)
• Dr. Jörg Jasper: Smart Grids and Smart Metering – Perspectives and Challenges for Industrialized and Developing Countries (1.0 MB)

• Dr. Thomas Sterr / Dr. Werner Krause / Jian Jiao / Michael Seyboth: Waste Management Software as an Instrument for the Promotion of Circular Economy in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, PR China (2.5 MB)
• Dr. Shuaib Lwasa: Reaching the Baseline of Kampala's Landfill for GHG Reduction; from Waste to Energy (3.8 MB)
• Prof. Frank Baur / Ato Getaneh Gebre: Valorising Waste (2.1 MB)

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• Session Minutes A2 / Rapporteur: Alexander Neubronner (22 KB)

• Prof. Andreas Oberheitmann: Introduction to the Xiamen Low Carbon City Concept (1.0 MB)
• Ms Nicci Diederichs Mander: Hosting a Climate Neutral 2010 FIFA World Cup in Durban, South Africa (3.8 MB)
• Prof. Alexander Schmidt: Thinking Low-Carbon for Urban Planning and Design – The Hongqiao Plan (5.8 MB)

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• Session Minutes A3 / Rapporteur: Sabine Noack (46 KB)

• Dr. Wulf-Holger Arndt: Intelligent Transport for Metropolises - Interlinking Transportation, Settlement Planning and User (794 KB)
• Prof. Günter Emberger: Intelligent Transport for Metropolises - Open Questions (28 KB)
• Dr. Fabio Duarte: The Challenges of Success: Metropolitan Mobility (5.0 MB)
• Ms Tanja Schäfer: Adaptation of Transport Infrastructure in Hyderabad to Climate Change (730 KB)
• Ms Carolin Höhnke: With or Without the City – Planning and Implementation of Public Transport Reforms in Santiago de Chile and Bogotá (6.3 MB)

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• Session Minutes A4 / Rapporteur: Norman Döge (29 KB)

• Prof. Gail Whiteman: Companies & the Transition to Low Carbon Cities (608 KB)

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• Session Minutes A5 / Rapporteur: Kai Hermsen (26 KB)

• Prof. Undine Giseke: Model City Casablanca – Urban Agriculture as a Contribution to Climate-Optimised Urban Development (3.1 MB)
• Dr. Wolfgang-Peter Zingel: The Megaurban Food System in Dhaka, Bangladesh (233 KB)
• Mr Nevin Cohen: Five Borough Farm - New York City’s Urban Agriculture Plan (2.5 MB)

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• Session Minutes A6 / Rapporteur: Yassine Moustanjidi (23 KB)

• Prof. Christoph Nytsch-Geusen / Mr Sebastian Seelig: Low Carbon Cities in the Making - The 35 ha in Hashtgerd New Town, Iran (7.4 MB)
• Mr Tobias Fiedler: Low Carbon Cities in Making: Masdar City (2.4 MB)

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• Session Minutes A7 / Rapporteur: Nicole Leubert (53 KB)

• Prof. Chris Zevenbergen: Adapting the Urban Environment to Climate Change (6.0 MB)
• Dr. Harry Storch / Prof. Frank Schwartze: Spatial Planning as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (7.2 MB)

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• Session Minutes A8 / Rapporteur: Antje Katzschner & Nigel Downes (22 KB)

• Dr. Ludger Eltrop / Prof. Alexander Schmidt: Aggregated Mitigation and Adaptation Potentials of Future Megacities – an Overview on Intermediate Project Results (854 KB)

• Mr Holger Robrecht: Motivation for Action: Cities and their Potential for Global Climate Mitigation and Adaptation (8.6 MB)

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Keynotes, Panels and Sessions of October 12th

• Prof. Winnie V. Mitullah: Stakeholder Cooperation at Local and Global Levels (3.6 MB)

• Prof. Harold Annegarn / D Mothusi Guy / Lilia Abrons: Best Practice iEEECO Concepts in Sustainable Social Housing and Domestic Energy in South Africa (3.9 MB)
• Dr. Angela Jain / Saira Alam, M.A.: Pilot project as part of BMBF-Megacities Project "Sustainable Hyderabad" (802 KB)

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• Session Minutes B1 / Rapporteur: Audrey Dobbins (35 KB)

• Dr. Manfred Schütze: Water and Wastewater Management in Megacities - The Lima Example (1.5 MB)
• Mr Wolfgang Sehrt: Reuse of Treated Wastewater and Quality-Proven Sludge in Agriculture: The Braunschweig Experience (1.3 MB)
• Ms Anke Althoff / Dr. Torsten Frehmann: Future Cities: Integrated European Solutions for Adaptation to Climate Change (3.4 MB)

• Ms Jessica Grove-Smith: The Passive House Concept for Different Climate Zones (3.4 MB)
• Mr Christian Hennecke: RECAST URUMQI - Planning of Low-Energy Architecture in Urumqi (4.4 MB)
• Ms Florentine Visser: AREE: AQABA Residence Energy Efficiency (1.1 MB)

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• Session Minutes B3 / Rapporteur: Claudia Kämper (47 KB)

• Dr. Yan Ping: Metrasys and Hefei City Planning: Looking Forward to a Sustainable Transportation in a Fast Growing City (3.7 MB)
• Mr Jörg Hanser: Intelligent Transport for Metropolises – City Logistics by DHL (830 KB)

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• Session Minutes B4 / Rapporteur: Hanna Hüging (58 KB)

• Mr Ho Long Phi: The Challenges of Urban Flood Management in Ho Chi Minh City (2.0 MB)
• Ms Ghazaleh S. Hossein Jasbi / Prof. Rudolf Schäfer: Iranian Municipality as Key Facilitators for Climate Protection and Energy Efficient Urban Fabric: The Case of Hashtgerd New Town (1.2 MB)

• Dr. Michael Lindfield: Post Copenhagen Financing Arrangement for Climate Change Investments: The Urban Context (6.8 MB)
• Prof. Thomas Döring / Prof. Nils Otter: Financing Local Jurisdictions: Guidelines and General Principles (314 KB)

• Session Minutes B7 / Rapporteur: Bhuvanachithra Chidambaram (24 KB)