World Alliance for Low Carbon Cities Forum 2024:
Enabling Tiger Leaps
The World Alliance for Low Carbon Cities (WALCC) organized its annual Forum together with the City of Porvoo on September 17th and 18th, 2024. The Forum showcased how cities aiming for carbon neutrality must simultaneously pursue the transformational agenda across all four of the Alliance’s focus areas: Urban Planning, Renewable Resources, Green Building, and Urban Transport.
The World Alliance for Low Carbon Cities (WALCC) organized its annual Forum together with the City of Porvoo on September 17th and 18th, 2024. The Forum showcased how cities aiming for carbon neutrality must simultaneously pursue the transformational agenda across all four of the Alliance’s focus areas: Urban Planning, Renewable Resources, Green Building, and Urban Transport.
This year’s Forum provided city decision-makers with a comprehensive overview of best practices and key development trends across the Alliance’s four focus areas. It highlighted the importance of finding new private-public collaboration models that will also attract international participation. The orchestration challenge is now to integrate substantial, processual, temporal, and spatial perspectives when promoting the agenda of carbon neutrality.
The role of the city as the orchestrator of transformational initiatives with strict guidelines and timetables is a new phenomenon in public-private collaboration. The Forum provided an excellent opportunity for city managers and planners to share their experiences, learn from each other, and accelerate the green transition.
Companies working with cities often like to focus on their own particular area of expertise, may it be in the energy sector or in construction. However, if they can engage more broadly with the city management and position their own contribution to the overarching development agenda of a particular city, they can be even more successful. The Forum offered companies an excellent opportunity to deepen their understanding of the complexity of the challenges facing cities while also improving the possibility of using public-private collaboration to enable tiger leaps.
Urban Planning
Porvoo as a transformational hub
Renewable resources
Finland as a hydrogen forerunner
Green Building
Co-implementing sustainable transformations
Urban Transport
Transport decarbonization – an opportunity for Finland
Co-Creating the 2024 WALCC forum in Porvoo
The Forum had strong participation from leading companies aiming to strengthen their position in public-private innovation ecosystems to develop new technologies and help leading cities and regions achieve carbon neutrality.
The Forum organizers are looking for partners that want to leverage upon the possibility of interacting. Please contact Jussi Hulkkonen (jussi.hulkkonen@walcc.org).