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This new episode sees edie’s content material editor Sarah George in dialog with Chantal Zeegers, Vice Mayor of Rotterdam.
She shares her expertise in supporting the city-region to transition to scrub power and enhance power effectivity to date, masking progress made and challenges nonetheless remaining in each the non-public sector and in houses.
Rotterdam is the commercial hub of the Netherlands. Its port is the busiest in Europe when it comes to annual cargo tonnage, and generates round one-tenth of the nation’s GDP. Maximising this financial alternative whereas driving down carbon and bettering livelihoods is a precedence for town.
Zeegers additionally shares her hopes for the upcoming World Vitality Congress. From 22-25 April, Rotterdam will welcome greater than 7,000 delegates together with policymakers and enterprise leaders in a bid to drive clear, inclusive power transitions the world over.
Zeegers explains why her precedence will probably be to stress the intersections between social sustainability and the power transition.
She says: “Vitality is a fundamental necessity in everybody’s life and I believe it is a focus level we must always handle extra, as an alternative of solely the technological half.
“A big majority of the residents of Rotterdam will not be very rich… so we have to actually put money into alternatives for the Rotterdammers to allow them to take part in our coverage.
“Besides the climate goals, we have a social goal… an affordable and just transition is one of our focal points.”
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