Cisco and the city of Amsterdam today announced the rollout of Urban EcoMap, an Internet-based tool that enables cities around the world to provide smarter climate change information for their citizens. A city can use Urban EcoMap to create awareness among its residents of the impact of carbon emissions on their urban environment. It provides information on carbon emissions from transportation, energy and waste among neighborhoods, organized by district, and delivers tips on ways to reduce a resident’s carbon footprint.
The application is an extension of the Urban EcoMap launched in May 2009 in the city of San Francisco. The Amsterdam version of the Urban EcoMap will be progressively expanded over the next six months with real-time information that is linked to data from other agencies.
Urban EcoMap provides information on carbon emissions from transportation, energy and waste among neighborhoods, organized by district.
The application now enables comparisons between the two cities of Amsterdam and San Francisco, on an aggregated residential per capita CO2 basis, and proportionally by the categories of Transportation, Energy and Waste.
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This is the next step in the development of the application. Let us know your thoughts and ideas on how the application can develop, continue to innovate and scale globally.
Welcome to the launch of the Urban EcoMap for the citizens of San Francisco. Following the preview of the application during Earth Day last month, we are excited to provide the live version from today.
Thanks for the feedback from the preview. Please go to http://sf.urbanecomap.org and let us if it will help you understand your neighborhood’s carbon footprint. We hope this application will enable visualizations of data that can inform your personal eco-decisions.
Urban EcoMap is a landmark innovation and a key element of the Connected Urban Development (CUD) framework for Connected and Sustainable Cities. This application is today being presented to the global community of cities, urban planners, businesses and academics who are attending the CUD Global Conference in Seoul, South Korea. The CUD partners plan to scale this application globally to other cities, in the partnership and beyond.
We thankyou for your interest and look forward to your engagement at the start of the development of this innovative vizualisation of cities carbon footprints
Earth Day Showcase of Urban EcoMap in San Francisco
Cities create 80% of global carbon emissions. As we move from educating people about climate change to taking action to mitigate climate impacts, we need innovation to help spur a shift to climate-friendly social behavior in cities. Urban EcoMap helps address this objective.
Begun in fall 2008, this pilot project is a collaborative effort involving Cisco and the City and County of San Francisco. San Francisco is the first city worldwide to introduce the Urban EcoMap.
On Earth Day 2009 (22 April), Mayor Gavin Newsom launched the Urban EcoMap pilot in San Francisco. The web-based tool will be made available to the general public at the Connected Urban Development conference in Seoul, 21st May 2009.
Please view the demonstration of the Urban EcoMap San Francisco in the viewer above. We would like to hear your feedback and comments. In addition, please return here for the latest information as the public go-live day for the web-based Urban EcoMap approaches.