Monitoring of CO2 emissions and material use in the city of Vienna
Abstract
The issues of climate change, dematerialization and circular economy have become important parts of the political agenda, including the Smart City Vienna Framework Strategy 2019-2050, which defines reduction of resource use as one of the three main goals and aims to reduce the city's GHG emissions, energy consumption and material footprint. However, Vienna's urban metabolism is anything but sustainable or circular. Vienna requires constant material inputs (creating a large footprint in the surrounding countryside) that accumulate in stocks or are released into nature as waste/emissions. The circular economy is therefore considered to play a key role in linking these goals and achieving an overall reduction in environmental pressures. The MoCAM project will produce an analysis of Vienna's societal metabolism, represented as material inputs, material outputs (waste, dissipative return to the environment), and GHG emissions, as well as derived indicators. Applying the concepts of circular economy and footprint perspective to the city level is challenging and has not been done before. The MoCAM project therefore provides the first integrated urban metabolism study that examines resource use across production and consumption (material inputs, stock accumulation, waste and emissions, footprints). The results will be discussed with policy makers of the City of Vienna and prepared for a monitoring of the Smart City Vienna framework strategy.
keywords urban metabolism sustainable resource use decarbonisation smart city Vienna
Publikationen
CO2- und Material-Fußabdruck für Wien. Eine Analyse der nachhaltigen Ressourcennutzung in Wien vor dem Hintergrund der Reduktionsziele in der Smart Klima City Strategie
Autoren: Eisenmenger, N; Dorninger, C; Kaufmann, L; Kalt, G; Perkovic, M; Fellner, J; Lederer, J; Lutter, S Jahr: 2022
Forschungsbericht (extern. Auftraggeber)
Project staff
Nina Eisenmenger
Assoc. Prof. Mag. Dr. Nina Eisenmenger
nina.eisenmenger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73717
Project Leader
23.04.2021 - 30.09.2022
Chriistian Dorninger
Dr. Chriistian Dorninger
chris.dorninger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73753
Project Staff
23.04.2021 - 30.09.2022
Lisa Kaufmann
Mag.rer.nat. Lisa Kaufmann
lisa.kaufmann@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73752
Project Staff
23.04.2021 - 30.09.2022