Sustai̇nable Ci̇ty Strategi̇es

Sustainable City Strategies

DEMIR has expanded its role solidly towards urban sustainability, working closely with local governments, providing support in medium to long range energy transition and climate adaptation strategies, and reaching into ecosystem preservation, urban and peri-urban nature-based development and urban food system transitions. With the pandemic exacting radical re-thinking of urban supply infrastructures pertaining to food and energy, localization has become the key word and DEMIR has been involved in all aspects of re-configuring the demands of this new “normal“; local renewable energy supply, flexibility of energy systems and integration of heat-power infrastructures through flexible urban energy networks and the radical re-think of urban food systems.

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Corporate GHG Inventory

Understand and quantify your emission sources using standardized methods such as GHG Protocol, ISO 14064 through development of a GHG Inventory.

CDP-Carbon Disclosure Project

We witness a rapid transition towards a more sustainable and resilient society in our business ecosystem. This will have a huge impact on our business, sectors and economics. You can gain competitive advantage by reporting through CDP and protect and improve your company’s reputation, get ahead of regulation, track and benchmark progress and turn risks into opportunities.

SBT-Science Based Targets

Science-based targets provide companies with a clearly-defined path to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement goals. More than 2,000 businesses around the world are already working with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Targets are considered ‘science-based’ if they are in line with what the latest climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – limiting global warming to well-below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

LCA - Carbon Life Cycle Analysis

LCA is one of the most comprehensive approach for companies to demonstrate and communicate transparency and corporate credibility to customers and stakeholders. Understanding and mapping environmental footprint on a product level is important to understand risks and opportunities.

City GHG Inventory

Cities are estimated to be responsible for an estimated 75 percent of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Cities have the opportunity for tackling climate change with their financial and human resources. The first step for cities to acknowledge the potential is to identify and measure their emissions. This will provide a feedback to decide and prioritize mitigation actions.

Mitigation

Mitigating climate change is about reducing the release of greenhouse gas emission. Mitigation strategies include retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient; adopting renewable energy sources like solar, wind; helping cities develop more sustainable transport such as bus rapid transit, electric vehicles, and biofuels; and promoting more sustainable uses of land and forests.

Adaptation

Adapting to life in a changing climate – involves adjusting to actual or expected future climate. The goal is to reduce our vulnerability to the harmful effects of climate change (like sea-level encroachment, more intense extreme weather events or food insecurity). It also encompasses making the most of any potential beneficial opportunities associated with climate change (for example, longer growing seasons or increased yields in some regions).

Innovation Management

Today innovation management is intimately related to routes to sustainable business, whether for a firm or for a public body.

Replication and Upscaling

Experimental urbanism, European style, involves local experimentation with main urban infrastructural systems; energy, water and food, the so called “nexus”.

Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts

DEMIR has been partners and leaders in Smart Cities and Communities – SCC projects starting from the very first generation of EU funded projects in 2014 in the 8th Framework Programme.