Josh Newell
UM School of Natural Resources & Environment
December 10, 2010
Urbanization, World (1950-2030)
70
60
50
40
World
30
20
10
0
1950
1955
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
Source: United Nations, Population Division, 2010.
2020
2025
2030
Source: United Nations, Population Division, 2010.
Sources: McKinsey Global Institute, China National Bureau of Statistics,
Foreign Policy.
Sources: McKinsey Global Institute, China National Bureau of Statistics,
Foreign Policy.
Sources: McKinsey Global Institute, China National Bureau of Statistics,
Foreign Policy.
Sources: McKinsey Global Institute, China National
Bureau of Statistics, Foreign Policy.
Cities are responsible for
approximately 71% of the
world’s greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions.
-International Energy Agency, 2009
8
Sources: McKinsey Global Institute, China
National Bureau of Statistics, Foreign Policy.
Commercial Building Emissions, China, 2005-2020
Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2008.
1. Urban areas just 2% of total land area, but responsible
for most of the world’s carbon emissions. Cities are
key leverage points for change
2. More than 50% of the cities that we will have by 2050
have not yet been built.
3. How we build cities will have long-term resource
implications