(Mohamad Syazwan Bin Radzi, A165771)

If you are the mayor of your hometown, what is your action to make your city more
sustainable?

As the mayor of hometown, I need to do my part to conserve energy and be sustainable. I can
do that in a few different ways such as:

• Make a sustainable urban transport by giving priority to bicycles over cars just like in
Copenhagen where a bridge exclusively for bikes has been constructed. Introducing
cable cars as part of urban public transport systems to link hilly and often low-income
urban communities to the other city.
• Increase the nature-based solutions as an urban climate change adaptation and disaster
risk reduction. The rooftops of buildings and streets can be change to greened rooftops
and streets that can well manage storm water runoff and improve urban climate.
• Introducing co-heating, co-cooling and carbon dioxide capture as co-generation
facilities can boost energy efficiency by taking waste heat from electricity generation
and using it to heat or cool buildings. The carbon dioxide generated captured can be
used for horticulture, manufacturing or other applications.
• Encourage the communities in reducing environmental footprint of consumption by
carpooling, lodging rental and shared ownership.
• Upgrading the street poles to form a web of information sensors that can do various
things such as gathering air quality data to monitor traffic and reduce the risk of crime.
• Help to cut the food waste by growing perishable produce right in town, boosting
individuals’ connections to food and reducing spoilage-promoting lengthy transit
distance and time.
• Make a collaboration with other people to direct urban planning and to make it more
sustainable and inclusive by participating in event such as United Nations Conference
on focus on sustainable urban development and adopted the “New Urban Agenda”. It
can make difference globally.
• Implement a strict building codes that favour green technology.