FUTURE CITIES AND NEW ECONOMY: CARBON NETRUALITY DRIVEN BY GREEN INNOVATIONS

The special issue of "Future Cities and New Economy" includes the ideas and practices of different countries and regions in the world in their efforts to promote the agenda for sustainable development and achieve carbon neutrality through green innovation. It also contains a wealth of cases, demonstrating how new technologies, models, and methods help advance sustainable development. Denmark, for example, is a pioneering country in the green and low-carbon transition, taking exporting green solutions as a national strategy to boost the agenda for sustainable development and provide new drivers for domestic economic growth. The country also carries out international cooperation by setting up innovation centers around the world; since 2017, the city of Chengdu, in southern China has been exploring the development of a new economy driven by digital technology using application scenarios to promote the landing and transformation of new technologies, industries, formats and models in urban space, while exploring the new path towards "The City of Parks" construction under the new wave of the industrial revolution.