Sweden is at the forefront of environmental sustainability and green tech solutions.

With
internationally renowned research on climate, energy, environmental systems and much more,
Chalmers University of Technology and Lund University are two of Swedens most esteemed
universities in these areas.
Your task is to get inspired by the progress Sweden is making in the area of environmental
sustainability. Develop an idea that can be adapted to Colombias urban areas and explain how this
will improve the lives of its urban populations. You can use an existing technology/innovation
and suggest a change or improvement. Your proposal should contain max. 1000 words
Your answer must include:
the environmental challenge your idea will address
a description of the innovative idea that you propose, including an explanation of its main
features and how it would improve environmental sustainability
a rough plan for the implementation of your invention/project
You might want to include:
potential risks of your proposed invention/project
how your invention/project will be adapted to Colombia's urban areas, from a local
perspective
which part of society will be affected by this invention/project
how your invention/project will help the people of Colombia's urban areas
which part you yourself would like to take in developing this project

Enviromental sustainability and green tech solutions in Colombian urban areas

Enviromental challengers of the Colombian urban areas
Recuperacin del rio Bogot
Vulnerabilidad ante los efectos del cambio climatico
Amenaza de la mineria del sur
Reduccin de gases de efecto invernader mediante la utilizacin de energa proveniente de fuentes
alternativas.
In Colombian urban areas one of the greaters issues is the socio-economic imbalance and the lack of
a proper educational politic that the country has been sufer since colonial times. The energy seflsufficiency can contribute to reduce that socio-economic gap throuth NGOs and goverment funds
and law that incentive this new to get energy for their homes.
Bogota River Recovery Through Solar Energy
The Bogot river is important for Colombian capital as an enviromental challenge due its darks
waters by all the contaminating elements and substances that all the industrial sector pour into it,
say its name evocates dirt and death. In modern times rivers near to the cities are no longer
importan in econimic and survival terms and this is why the rivers becomen into a enviromental

challenge due to the citezens and industries indifference that don't care that this rives flow to greates
rivers and seas pouring all its contaminig substances affecting acuatic life and riverside and cost
comunities.
say its name evocates
Solar energy in Bogota
Focused in sustainables sub-system due the change to a full sustainable society if very complex.
Transition mangment, goverment aproach to make the change
Principle: learning by doing and doing by learning
1. transition arena
2. sustaninibly vision, transition agenda
3. transition expermients
4. evaluation and monitoring
data and interviews

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