Print Email Facebook Twitter CO2MORROW Title CO2MORROW: The role of CO2 in the agrifood sector in the transition to a cirular economy in the province of South Holland Author Dekker, Jelle (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Vermeulen, Stefan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) de Roode, Menno (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Li, Yangzi (Student TU Delft) Contributor Balz, Verena Elisabeth (mentor) Qu, L. (mentor) Furlan, C. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology | Sustainable Design Project AR2U086 R&D Studio – Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis Date 2020-04-09 Abstract The province of South Holland is a key player in the global food economy. However, its agrifood sector is currently generating unwanted outputs. CO2 emissions are the largest and most problematic output flow of this sector, causing negative externalities such as climate change and sea-level rise. Actors producing the CO2 are interlocked into a system and do not have the resources to escape this. This report uses the concept of the circular economy to design out this polluting output flow, while also taking the financial position of the actors into account. The transition to a circular agrifood economy for CO2 has to happen spatially. The available space in the province of South Holland is already under pressure to solve other major challenges, such as land degradation, climate adaptation, decreasing biodiversity and a poor urban landscape relationship. Solving all these challenges separately is inefficient and impossible.This report explores the possible synergies between mitigating those challenges and the transition towards a CO2 circular (i.e. CO2 neutral) agrifood economy, while also taking spatial justice into account. A future is envisioned of an interconnected metropolitan landscape where CO2 is stored in the form of biomass and where knowledge about a biobased economy is gained and exported to the world. A cross-subsidy CO2 exchange policy based on creating synergies with other challenges is proposed as a catalyst policy for this transition. Furthermore, specific spatial interventions in the form of setting up knowledge parks are also contributing to the transition. The agrifood sector will become much more robust and sustainable by trading CO2 together. The production of biomass mitigates other spatial challenges too, and vulnerable farmers get an additional source of income. With the proposed strategies, the province of South Holland is ready for a sustainable and cooperating tomorrow. Subject Circular economyProvince of South HollandCO2biobased economyagrifood sectorSpatial Justice To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ee4489f6-9078-4980-8b88-b27f676ff593 Part of collection Student theses Document type student report Rights © 2020 Jelle Dekker, Stefan Vermeulen, Menno de Roode, Yangzi Li Files PDF CO2MORROW_FINAL_REPORT.pdf 70.94 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ee4489f6-9078-4980-8b88-b27f676ff593/datastream/OBJ/view