Task6

Name : Hasan AlBraiki
ID : H00098481
Section: CTB

Task 6: One planet living & Cool Cities
Modern cities are expansion in a Composition way for example here in UAE’s cities. This improvement has both advantages and disadvantages.
Nowadays, cities consume a lot of energy that produces high amount of CO2 and heat. So the developers find out new technique to reduce the heat and CO2 by building Cool Cities. These cities can make the level of the heat and CO2 to zero. In this essay am going to search for modern cities’ role with the respect to climate changes, also I look at how modern cities can reduce their consumption of energy for minimizing their carbon emission. Last, I will raise my opinion for the practicality of environmentally friendly cities.
First, I’m going to find how modern cities contribute to global warming.
For starters, one notable concern is with regard to the buildings. For example, buildings in the UAE don’t have spaces so they don’t provide any shade as well as poor materials used in construction (Younes 2). Second reason to be considered is with the respect to the transportation. To illustrate, the sudden growth of UAE’s population led us to have big numbers of cars, motorbikes and buses to be used. This will increase the energy consumption and also CO2 exhausted into the air.
Having looked at some contribution, let’s turn our attention to adjusted solutions like how can they minimize the energy’s level and carbon emissions. The main point is climate control. To clarify,
Mr. Hope stated that sorouh plans to circulate seawater underground to cool the pavement and benches and the exterior of buildings (Hope 2). Mr. Younes stated that using creative architecture will cut the energy consumption by 50-70 % (Younes 3). Also, they will create abundance of trees and water to prevent the heat island effects, filtered light rooftops which can reduce the impact of sun heat and utilizes natural energy such as wind energy (Cool cities).
An additional point to take into consideration is in terms minimizing CO2 that exhausted by transportation. For instant, modern technology of public transportation will be used in the cool cities this will lead people to use them. Also; they will give new ways of people transporting from zone to zone in the city. Cool city will minimize the amount of gasses exhausted into the air because there will be no cars. Cool city will use Monorail, Hybridcar, Light rail transit and solar ship for water transportation (Cool cities).
In conclusion, cool cities are a genius idea to minimize the carbon emission in the world. But I think this project will not succeed in Middle East because there are a lot of difficulties and many challenges like the sources Middle East. UAE depends on oil production, so it will not be easy to find other resources.