Cool Cities (SDSJ)

Global warming is an issue that the entire world is considered about. Earth and environmental issues like rising in population and increasing in the amount of CO2 have happened since the start of the industrial revolution, what have been some of the problems associated with economic development. If we don’t solve the global warming problem, we will need a new planet to replace ours. If we want to live within the capacity of a single earth, we will have to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the air by one half. In Japan during the last 30 years GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has gone up double percent while energy efficiency has increased 37% percent and oil consumption has decreased 8% percent. 90% of the CO2 that are sent in the air come from the buildings and transportations like cars. Courtiers have created cities that are trying to reduce the CO2. Those cities are called cool cities. A cool city is a city that was built to reduce the CO2 emission and help with the global warming problem. It is built by JDSJ; it is a company from Japan. There are several types of transportation in the city. There is Monorail to transport people between cities, LRT, hybrid cars and solar ships inside the city. The city is divided into several zones there are business/public zone, residential zone, culture/sport zone and resort zone. There are some techniques that will reduce heat in the city like putting an abundant of trees and water, natural breezes. In the city, there are two types of buildings. The expected CO2 reductions for the two types of buildings are 80%. The overall percentage of reduction of CO2 emissions claimed in the video is 60%.