[Public Seminar] Malmö: How to Become the World’s Most Sustainable City?

Date/Time
Date(s): 05/12/2014
Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Category A: Introduction of the city/region for a general audience (students and others) with an emphasis on current urban innovation activities

Malmö

Location
HK Arts Centre/Comix Home Base

Language: English

Admission: Free, please register below.

Event Partner(s):

Speaker(s):Mr. Joakim Nordqvist, Affiliated Researcher Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University / Climate Strategist with the City of Malmö

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Mr. Joakim Nordqvist

Event description:

Becoming the World’s Most Sustainable City? A Look at Malmö

With around 300 000 inhabitants, the City of Malmö is Sweden’s third largest city. Together with the Danish capital Copenhagen, it constitutes part of a crossboundary conurbation that forms the nexus of a south Scandinavian region of close to four million residents. For the past couple of decades, the city has undergone a series of transformative developments that have contributed to a successive underpinning of Malmö as an internationally received example of urban sustainability efforts.

This presentation looks at examples of processes and actions that shed light on Malmö’s momentum toward increased sustainability, offering comments on various enabling factors. The city’s ambitious Environmental Programme is expounded upon, and questions of agency and legitimacy comprise a general backdrop to the discourse as such.