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Presentation: Dr. Felix CREUTZIG
Urbanization world wide drives global environmental change, for example by the GHG emissions induced by urbanites, but also its land consumption. And yet, every city is different. In this talk, Dr. Creutzig tries to bridge the gap between the place-specific of cities and their global Impact by building typologies of cities. Issues involve the global land take of cities, the relevance of coordinated but context-specific climate change mitigation strategies, and cities‘ geographically appropriate adaptation strategies. The talk will conclude by discussion the trade-offs and sweet spots of urban form to achieve various climate and sustainability objectives.
Dr. Felix Creutzig leads the group on transport, land-use and infrastructures at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. He contributed to the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC as lead author, assessing the potential of mitigation by bioenergy deployment and in the transportation sector. Dr. Creutzig has been postdoc in Princeton, Berkeley, and the China Energy Foundation, and holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the Humboldt University in Berlin. By training a physicist, he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Master in Advanced Studies. |