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The book is also available in the United Arab Emirates at Kinokuniya and Carrefour.
The climate emergency is already having major impacts on cities worldwide, and these impacts will increase. We know that we must transform the world’s energy systems, as well as our lives and lifestyles, in order to achieve sustainability, livability, and balance. This acclaimed book provides a detailed Roadmap to help guide these critical changes to our energy systems, as well as our ways of living, and the cities in which we live.
This book presents a comprehensive transformation framework that reaches across multiple disciplines, and provides the integrated roadmap to reach Net Zero.
We must transform the city to attain Net Zero,
and so we must understand what makes it the way it is,
and what must be done to change it.
Global cooperation is essential.
We have to leave behind our debilitating ideas of national independence, recognize our interdependence, and take action as a global community.
Industrialism created unimaginable wealth, but it did so at a cost that was unrecognized and unpaid.
Now we have to pay that cost, and we will pay in two ways.
The costs of enduring, surviving, and adapting to the climate emergency will be massive.
And the cost to transform the energy systems that power the economy and its cities will be massive as well.
There is much work to be done beyond what cities can accomplish, but accomplishing everything that our cities can do is essential, and it is here that we begin.
Langdon is a globally renowned teacher, consultant, and keynote speaker on innovation and strategy. He leads the innovation consulting practice at InnovationLabs, supporting companies, governments, and humanitarian organizations worldwide. He has written many books on all facets of innovation management and business strategy which are widely used in practice and as university textbooks, including The Innovation Master Plan which was described here. Recently he created the world’s most complete online course in innovation, the 25-hour Innovation Mastery program.
He also leads Net Zero Urban Twin at The Modern Data Company, as noted in Chapter 8C.
He is affiliated with many global organizations, including Mastercard’s Digital Innovation Institute, where he is an Innovation Fellow. He is a former member of the US Team developing the ISO 56000 Global Innovation Management Standard, and former Senior Practice Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Ackoff Center.
Farah Naz is an award winning Climate Change strategist with 20 years of experience throughout the building sector in the USA, UK, Southeast Asia, and most recently the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
She is a Chartered Engineer (UK), Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and Chair of CIBSE’s UAE Chapter, LEED and WELL Accredited Professional, and Verified Research Expert for the Dubai Future Foundation. Farah is a strong advocate of STEM education for future generations.
Since arriving in the UAE she has been steering sustainability and innovation efforts in the built environment across the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf Region. She leads Specialist Services with a focus on Sustainable Cities, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and Urban Resilience for AECOM in the Middle East and Africa.
Farah was a prime mover in creating the Energy Strategy for the first zero-energy building in the UK, which won the 2015 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Sustainable Buildings Award. In the Middle East her name is synonymous with implementable sustainability and energy strategies, and she has supported building projects including the Dubai Museum of the Future, the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, Bee’ah Headquarters in Sharjah, the Expo 2020 Sustainability Pavilion, Masdar Eco Villa, and Masdar Housing, and master planning projects including NEOM, Red Sea, Amaala, and Hudayriat in Saudi Arabia.
As an innovator, she focuses on implementating best practices in the built environment by applying systems related to the Food-Energy- Water Nexus, Biomimetics, the Five Capital model of Sustainability, Liveability, and Inclusive Integrated Innovation Frameworks, which will build the foundation of the cities and communities of the future.
Start learning how to achieve Net Zero by 2032
The book is also available in the United Arab Emirates at Kinokuniya and Carrefour.