The Call for Papers for the 10th EUGEO Congress 2025 is open! The Climate Action team at HeiGIT is looking forward to actively participate in next year´s congress with two sessions chaired by Kirsten von Elverfeldt, Maria Martin and Sebastián Block.
The theme of the upcoming EUGEO 2025 Congress is “Geographies of a Changing Europe”. The congress will be held from September 8 to 11, 2025 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
We warmly invite scholars from across Europe and beyond to submit their paper to one of the many available sessions. Here you can find all sessions and submit your papers: https://www.eugeo2025.eu/eugeo-2025-sessions/.
The submission portal is open from 29 November 2024 until 20 January 2025. Authors will receive feedback and decisions by mid-February 2025.
HeiGIT researchers Kirsten von Elverfeldt, Maria Martin and Sebastián Block will be chairing one session on the 15-min city and active mobility indicators for the future of urban mobility and one session on greenhouse gas emission inventories at high spatial resolution.
Session #205: “Mapping emissions: greenhouse gas emission inventories at high spatial resolution”
Category: Human Geography
Accurate accounting and monitoring of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are key to assess our efforts at mitigating climate change. Many important climate policy decisions are made by regional and city governments. High-resolution inventories of GHG emissions over large regions offer a way to standardize emission accounting and monitoring at policy-relevant scales, provide a tool for local governments to track emissions, and are important inputs into the inverse modeling of emissions sources from atmospheric measurements.
In this session, researchers and practitioners constructing and using high-resolution spatial inventories of GHG emissions will exchange their findings and discuss key challenges such as the validation of their results. The session will include research on territorial GHG accounting as well as consumption-based accounting, and cover the latest methods for GHG emission spatial disaggregation and bottom-up accounting, as well as for uncertainty quantification and data validation. To complement the methodological talks, we will invite contributions by practitioners using high-resolution GHG inventories to inform climate policy at local scales. With such a mix of contributions by inventory developers and users, the session will provide participants with rich opportunities for knowledge exchange and establishment of novel partnerships.
Session #206: “Back to the future: the 15-min city and active mobility indicators”
Category: Urban Studies
Around 70 % of global greenhouse emissions originate in cities, and a large fraction of these come from the transportation sector. Therefore, fostering low-carbon urban mobility is essential to mitigate ongoing climate change and to transition toward a sustainable future. Partly in response to these urgent sustainability challenges, the concept of 15-minute cities has gained widespread attention in recent years. But so far geographic analyses of 15-minute cities lack proper consideration of how different aspects of urban design promote safe, healthy and sustainable modes of travel.
We propose a session centered around metrics of sustainable urban mobility required to increase the livability of European cities and to reduce their transportation emissions. Our session will gather researchers from a variety of fields working toward fostering a transition away from the car-centered mobility prevalent in most cities, and toward wider use of public transport and active mobility. The session will cover research ranging from (but not limited to) indicators quantifying how well people can walk and bike in their city, to routing for walking and cycling that focuses on heat-avoiding, quiet, and green routes.
We look forward to receiving your submissions, and to fruitful discussions on the future of urban mobility and GHG inventorying!
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