Smart city key to sustainability
The Budapest Centre for Long-term Sustainability (BC4LS) launched its professional-cultural event series, BC4LS Open Events, which provides an excellent meeting point for those interested in the topic of sustainability.
Smart city key to sustainability
New Sustainable Economics

Smart city key to sustainability

Brian Chi-ang Lin and Gyula Zilay (Photo: Róbert Hegedüs)
Eurasia 20/03/2023 01:00

The Budapest Centre for Long-term Sustainability (BC4LS) launched its professional-cultural event series, BC4LS Open Events, which provides an excellent meeting point for those interested in the topic of sustainability.

At the round table discussion on 16 February entitled "Smart Cities, Circular Economy, and Sustainability", in addition to Brian Chi-ang Lin, BC4LS Researcher, Sustainability Professor and Business Consultant at the National Chengchi University Taipei in Taiwan, Gyula Zilahy, Professor and Head of Department of Environmental Economics and Sustainability at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics talked with Dávid Papp, the Head of Policy Unit of the Sustainable Finance Department of Magyar Nemzeti Bank, the central bank of Hungary.
Dávid Papp (Photo: Róbert Hegedüs)
Dávid Papp summarised in his introductory speech that human resource and consumption are concentrated in Mega-cities, therefore it is essential to develop the smart-city concept, which is the key to the creation of sustainable cities.
Brian Chi-ang Lin (Photo: Róbert Hegedüs)
According to Professor Lin, the creation of circular cities is necessary for a circular economy. If a smart city wants to become a functional community responsible for environmental sustainability, then the emergence of circular buildings is essential.
Gyula Zilahy (Photo: Róbert Hegedüs)
For Professor Zilahy, the essence of circular business is that the economy, the economic organization, consumes as little as possible of usable goods. The basis of a sustainable business model can be e.g. the sharing economy too.

After the round table discussion, the visitors could see a contemporary exhibition combined with a guided tour, as well as take part in a standing reception with live music.

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