The transition from today’s fossil-fuel determined reality to an urban future based on renewable power requires new thinking and decision-making. Yet most cities and urban communities are still planned and managed as if present crises did not exist: mounting costs of rapid climate change and inevitable decline of oil, natural gas and uranium reserves. This lecture will outline the global-scale of the urban transformation necessary for cities and towns to be entirely powered by renewable energy.

Professor Droege is Chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy (Asia Pacific) and Steering Group member of the Urban Climate Change Research Network. He is an expert on renewable urban design, development and infrastructure. He directed Solar City, a research development effort conducted under the auspices of the International Energy Agency and holds professorial positions at the Universities of Newcastle, Australia and Beijing, China. He directs Epolis, a consultancy active in sustainable urban change in Australia and internationally, with a primary focus on China. Droege is author of The Renewable City (Wiley, 2006).

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