Efficient, Cheap and Green

Reducing CO2 emissions is not only about adapting new technologies, but ensuring that these technologies are also being accepted by the public.

Only when they are accepted, or better even embraced by the people, they can be implemented swiftly without any  major delays. In the past, retrofitting projects have sometimes created a strong opposition as inhabitants were never asked if they were in favour of any building improvements. Worse, they were just presented with a bill for the renovation costs. 

To avoid such a conflict, the City of Lund in Sweden has embraced its inhabitants in a democratic process to take part and decide on a number of renovation measures to reduce CO2 emissions. At the same time, the city has ensured that the investments of the individual measures all made economic sense to the inhabitants. Thanks to this policy, the ambitious targets of 2020 climate and energy plan of the European Union seem likely to be achieved.

Watch the video here: http://www.cityfied.eu/news/articlesinterviews/efficient—cheap-and-green.kl

More information:
The CITyFiED project aims to develop a replicable, systemic and integrated strategy to adapt European cities and urban ecosystems into the smart city of the future, focusing on reducing the energy demand and GHG emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy sources by developing and implementing innovative technologies and methodologies for building renovation, smart grid and district heating networks and their interfaces with ICTs and Mobility.

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