A city the size of Paris must be built every week for the next 30 years to accommodate global population growth. How do we rebuild our cities and towns in the face of climate change?

Welcome to Urban Insight by Sweco Podcast Series! In this episode, we dive deep into the topic of how to speed up the transition to resilient, climate-neutral cities. We speak with Matthew Baldwin at the European Commission, who heads the EU mission to create 100 climate-neutral cities by 2030. We discuss challenges and solutions with urban development experts, researchers, and other specialists within the field.

Episode guest appearances

• Matthew Baldwin, Deputy Director-General for mobility and transport at the European Commission and manager of the European mission on climate-neutral and smart cities
• Andreas Gyllenhammar, Chief Sustainability Officer, Sweco
• Matilda van den Bosch, Researcher, Barcelona Institute for Global Health
• Lot van Hooijdonk, Alderman, city of Utrecht
• Bas Horsting, Design Director, Urban Planning and Architecture, Sweco
• Colm O’Callaghan, moderator, Brid Agency

Cities account for 70% of the world’s global emissions, and they are now being hit by the effects of climate change like flooding and other problems. So, how do we rebuild our cities to adapt them to the effects of climate change and to align them with the goals of the Paris climate agreement and UN sustainable development goals? Tune into the podcast to find out more.

About the Urban Insight podcast

The Urban Insight mission is to share solutions for future city planning and initiate a dialogue about sustainable urban development. Since 2018, Urban Insight reached 28 million people through news, press and media.

Enjoy our podcast series highlighting key actions to deliver on the 2030 Agenda and beyond!

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About Sweco

Sweco is Europe’s leading engineering and architecture consultancy. Together with our clients and the collective knowledge of our 18,000 architects, engineers and other specialists, we co-create solutions to address urbanisation, capture the power of digitalisation, and make our societies more sustainable.

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