This is a non-government run event and provides an ideal opportunity for world academia, students and business communities to independently assess the major sustainability issues under discussion.

Sustainable development can be neatly encapsulated in the following statements:.

‘Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’
(Our Common Future – The Brundtland Report - World Commission of Environment and Development – 1987)

‘A better quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come.’
(A better quality of life: a strategy for sustainable development in the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions – 1999)

Global drivers for sustainable development

• Global population: doubling every 40 years.
• Material consumption: doubling every 20 years.
• Global warming: the 1990s were the warmest decade in the 20th century.
• Inefficiencies: it takes 20 kg of raw materials to produce 1 kg of ‘bought goods’.
• Dwindling resources: in 30 to 50 years, the demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply.
• Sheer volume: construction is responsible for 40% of global energy use and raw materials.
• Energy use: 50% of UK energy consumption is used in the operational phase of buildings.
• Transport: 10% of national energy consumption is in the production and transport of construction materials.

'The goal of sustainable development is to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and enjoy a better quality of life, without compromising the quality of life of future generations...

... for the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations, that goal will be pursued in an integrated way through a sustainable, innovative and productive economy that delivers high levels of employment; and a just society that promotes social inclusion, sustainable communities and personal wellbeing. This will be done in ways that protect and enhance the physical and natural environment, and use resources and energy as efficiently as possible.'
UK Government


Conference Objectives

• Provide a blue print for Shaping the Environmental Legacy for Future World Cities
• Carbon Footprint & The New Currency - Achieving Kyoto Protocol 2012 objectives
• Environmental Legacy
• Educational Futures - Developing Entrepreneurs
• Business Futures

Included in this conference (and others phased annually for 2010/11/12 and beyond after the 2012 world Koyota summit) is a high profile attempt to collate data to analyse the actual integrity, sustainability and legacy achieved as a result of the construction of, and holding a world major event in London.

For the first time a world government, The UK Government, is actively collating data on the carbon footprint implications of constructing and holding a major world event.  The complete unique transparency afforded by the government in the UK will provide collated data to see if the high goals originally set by the UK materialize as hoped.  Related link:  Environmental Sustainability.

This will provide the conference with the opportunity to actively address the carbon footprint/built environment information to improve the sustainability programmes for future world cities planning similar major regenerations.  This conference also provides a platform for world academics and scientists to interact cohesively to highlight their findings.

This should provide a framework for new innovative technology solutions to improve future regeneration projects e.g.  in the UK: The Thames Gateway Regeneration Project, the 3rd runway at Heathrow and for other future world city regeneration.  The Kyoto Protocol, which became legally binding at midnight New York time (0500 GMT) on 16 February 2005, demands a 5.2% cut in greenhouse gas emissions from the industrialised world as a whole, by 2012.

Not just hot air - more than 140 countries have signed up

Each country has been set its own individual targets according to its pollution levels.