Sustainable Cities and Communities

• As cities find their groove, perhaps developers will start investing in smaller communities with off-the-grid eco-friendly lifestyles, sustainable transport, and home-harvested foods, all while remaining plugged into the 21st century digital and creative economies, that people have been asking for.
• The third sustainable development goal (SDG 3) commits the global community to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages with a target to end the epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis and to combat hepatitis and other communicable diseases by 2030.
• The tech spending directed towards smart cities and the efforts to build IoT architecture, which is anticipated to reach $80 billion by 2050 will become a prime ingredient in the goal to improve the quality of living and sustainability.
• A steady increase of smart city development around the world with the total value of the global smart city market projected to exceed US$ 2.5 trillion by 2025.
• Sixty percent of the global population will live in cities by 2030, with 90% of urban growth in the coming decades likely to occur in low- and middle-income countries.
• An investment worth $1 billion for 100 smart cities over the next five years is expected to be a major enabler for IoT adoption across key industries.
• The forecast of 2.5 Mt lithium demand in 2029 make us all in the global community responsible for developing sustainable extraction and recycling of lithium and other battery metals in order to contribute to solid state battery technology over the next 5-10 years.
• Not having Taiwan's input in the UN is a loss to the global community, and will hamper Member States' efforts to build back better and implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in full and on time.
• Action on climate change and sustainability - making Milton Keynes the greenest and most sustainable city in the world, implementing the Sustainability Strategy and introducing an action plan to meet our intention to become carbon neutral by 2030 and a post-carbon city by 2050.
• Various factors such as government initiatives for overpopulation and urbanization management, growing requirement of resource management for sustainable development, emergence of AI, IoT and their market application are expected to boost the market for Smart City across the globe.
• The global community finds itself in the midst of a quandary: how to provide adequate nutrition, including higher demand for protein, for a growing population that's expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050 while reducing environmental impacts and utilizing natural resources in a more sustainable way.
• As water scarcity competes with carbon emissions for the public's attention, the sustainability dialogue could shift from global issues such as climate change to local, community-based solutions in developing regions.
• ASEAN is now guiding 26 cities under the ASCN into becoming smart cities, which will create sustainability, economic and social opportunities and investment.
• Urbanization will contribute to sustainable growth thereby increasing productivity, allowing innovation and improving lifestyle.
• Rapid urbanization and rising purchasing power in Asia, particularly China, India, and Southeast Asia will sustain demand for packaging going forward.
• Current negative trends in biodiversity and ecosystems will undermine progress towards 80% of the assessed targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, related to poverty, hunger, health, water, cities, climate, oceans and land.
• As world urbanization continues to grow and the total population expected to double by 2050, there exists an increased demand for intelligent, sustainable environments that reduce environmental impact and offer citizens a high-quality life.
• The emergence of AI in smart cities the market is expected to provide lucrative opportunities for smart cities market growth in the coming years.
• The continued commitment to a net-zero emissions trajectory will be critical to the UK's economic and environmental wellbeing in the coming years, including not only sustainable growth but also cities where we can move and breathe and ecosystems which are robust and fruitful.
• Recognizing cities as engines of growth, Uzbekistan has set sustainable urbanization as a priority agenda, with the goal of increasing its urbanization level to 60% by 2030.
• Geographic information generated by social media's users discloses opportunities for building analytical scenarios related to urban and regional planning and it offers useful suggestions for sustainable development based on tourism strategies.
• Cities from diverse regions and countries will realize the benefits of electric mobility and achieve a sustainable energy future.
• With 70 percent of the world's population expected to live in cities by 2050, cities are at the forefront of sustainable thought and need to be resilient.

Last updated: 10 January 2021