Title:Future Cities
Title:Future Cities
Duration: 3:12 minutes
Description:
Future Cities
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[Jeremey]
Our work on future cities has been done because we recognise urban development as one of the great social phenomena of our time. And the way that cities develop has a huge impact on resource consumption, on energy – and so you’re going to understand the global energy system if you’re going to understand global demand – you need to understand what is happening with urban development.
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Various shots of London.
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Jeremy Bentham. Vice President Global Business Environment and Head of Shell Scenarios, Royal Dutch Shell
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Various shots of urban landscape
[Jeremey]
In the future historians will refer to the century from 1950 -2050 as the century of the city when most of the world urbanised. If you go back to 1950 there was less than 30% of the world urbanised and now there’s about 50% and by 2050 it’ll be beyond 70%.
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Various shots of urban landscape
[Jeremey]
People are moving there because of the attractions of being connected and the jobs that come from that and all the amenities that come from that.
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Various shots of London.
[Jeremey]
As a company we supply energy solutions to people, to companies. But as we look at the city itself we recognize the importance of the choices that are made at city level. London for example has set a target to be 60% lower emissions in 2025 compared to 1990.
The opportunities and the stresses for developing healthy, vibrant cities really cross all kinds of boundaries
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Various shots of London.
[Jeremey]
It’s very important that businesses and municipal authorities and civic society, non-governmental organisations and academia work effectively together to bring forward good ideas –bright energy ideas into the city development.
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Various shots of London.
[Jeremey]
I’m like just about anybody else I take things for granted and I’m sure people who have been grown up in circumstances which are decent and affluent natural take for granted all the infrastructure all the resource systems around them that enable their quality of life. So we expect to be able to go to a switch and turn on a light, we expect to be able to get into a vehicle and travel somewhere, we expect –if we’re in a city – to take a tram, we expect our water systems, and our waste systems, and our sewage systems to work. But behind this there is an important infrastructure and resources whether that’s energy or water of whatever which have to be functioning well. Even as we look to the future you think of new innovations, if you think of driverless cars they will still need to be fuelled, there will still need to be a transport infrastructure around that and I hop that people are increasingly aware of this because doing it well makes the difference to the quality of life for everybody.
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