Blog Project Task 6 (Cool Cities)

With the technology improving, the population of people and the demand of energy increases, leading to a direct increase in carbon dioxide emission which helps in speeding the process of global warming. Japan was one of the active countries toward this issue, because it had a low emission rate among other countries and because it increased its energy efficiency to 37% while decreasing its oil consumption to 8% (Cool City).
The film says carbon dioxide emissions are coming from buildings and transportation which form around 90%. It is expected that the buildings will reduce 50% of the carbon dioxide in the air and the residential buildings will reduce 30% (Cool City). So as a result a new project was brought which is the building of Cool city. Cool city is a city which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60% gathered from Japanese Company which is the SDCG (Sustainable Development Consortium of Japan). The video emphasize this city will operate on natural energies, such as it will present solar ships, hybrid cars, light rail transit, and monorail as transportation. It will also meet the requirements of the residents and visitors by having a business, sport, resort zones and a Jatropha forests and it will contain power plant farms (Cool City). This cities heat managing will be unique, where there are some techniques will reduce heat by water, planting trees, roof membrane and the usage of recycled cool air. As a result the buildings will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60%, where the resident building will reduce 50% and other building will reduce carbon emissions to 30%.
Bradley Hope of National Newspaper says the average temperature rise up to 50C and the humidity 97%. Because of that building cool city in the UAE it’s very helpful to reduce carbon emission. (Hope).

In conclusion, these cities are one of the solutions that will help solving the global warming. No one built this city because of its high cost but as you can see building these kinds of cities will help solving many problems. In my point of view, that these solutions are very useful to reduce the carbon production, however normally it’s hard to change the mentally of people from gulf and UAE as they are producing oil and other sources which are the main source of money and pollution.