Malmö aims to be one of the world’s leading climate cities, with a wide range of projects from transportation, energy and city planning through to consumption, education and lifestyle. In order to become a sustainable city, Malmö has set itself ambitious goals. By 2020 the City of Malmö is to be climate neutral, and by 2030 the whole municipality will run on 100% renewable energy.
In recent years, Malmö has received several awards for its work to become a sustainable city. In October 2009, Malmö was awarded the prestigious UN prize, The Habitat Scroll of Honour, for the city’s innovative, holistic approach to becoming a 21st century eco-city. The year after that, Malmö received the World Habitat Award 2010 for the work with making Augustenborg a more ecological, economic and socially sustainable residential area.
Last year Malmö took part in Urban Best Practice Area (UBPA) at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Together with thirty-five cities all over the world, Malmö was invited to show good exemplars of work with sustainable urban development. The Expo organisers declared Malmö’s exhibition one of the three most interesting in the UBPA category.
Hyllie – a global role model for climate smart living
Now when Malmö is focusing on its biggest development area, Hyllie, it is through a total commitment to climate smart solutions and broad initiatives in transport, energy and land use. Among other things, energy supplies to Hyllie will be purely renewable or recycled energy and the energy system will be based on so called smart infrastructure (a smart grid). Hyllie is already home to Malmö Arena, and as recently as last December the new City Tunnel Station was opened here. A new fair and conference centre will be inaugurated next February and the end of 2012 will see the opening of Scandinavia’s largest shopping centre, Emporia, in the area. Once fully developed, Hyllie will boast nine thousand homes and the same number of new jobs.
Malmö’s new congress centre will be LEED certified
Malmö’s new congress venue, planned for completion by 2014, will be an environment-friendly project with a significant reduction in energy consumption through the use of geothermal heat, solar energy and wind power. The goal is for the facility to be certified in accordance with the international environmental system, LEED, with the ambition of reaching the highest level, Platinum. The new congress venue will be located in a prime location; in the city centre within walking distance of the central train station. The entire venue will comprise 90,000 square metres and the congress section will accommodate 1,500 people; the concert hall will seat 1,600, and the hotel will have some 375 rooms.
