3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
codes, a strategy that also addresses the resiliency of specific buildings that are deemed
critical for shelter and continued operations (e.g., hospitals, municipality,
water/wastewater, police) during extreme weather or other related events. This can
begin with the identification of critical buildings based on functionality, but also
supplemented with a resiliency audit, to understand how impervious these buildings are
to extreme weather events and other natural or man-made hazards (e.g., cyber attacks).
This audit would also seek to identify cost-effective measures to improve resiliency of
these buildings, while also reducing their energy consumption and GHG emissions.
For new buildings, the TIR recommendation is that Luxembourg evaluate and establish
certain design requirements to incorporate a certain level of resiliency. In addition,
Luxembourg City can lead by example, by having new or renovated City buildings
become more resilient and disclose the resiliency measures of the buildings. Once this
program is deemed successful in the city, then consideration can be made to scale it
across the country to other metropolitan regions.
Public Policy
Create a smart governance oversight body and develop/implement appropriate
performance assessment tools. Smart governance will be critical to ensure that
Luxembourg’s journey through the Third Industrial Revolution proceeds in an efficient
and cost-effective manner, thus avoiding wasteful or ineffective spending. Knowing
where and when to focus investments and to initiate projects will enable a smoother
transition. This proposal provides a strategy for identifying and prioritizing cities and/or
regions according to their readiness for TIR investments and demonstration projects.
This strategy includes an assessment framework for evaluating the readiness of cities
and regions. This framework uses specific sets of criteria as measures of TIR readiness,
as well as Readiness Benchmarks, against which cities and regional entities would be
periodically evaluated. A Smart Cities Index 61 was recently developed for U.K. cities and
provides a valuable model of this type of assessment framework.
Create a ‘Future Transport Fuel’ platform with partners from the European transport
corridors, and begin building a detailed roadmap for decarbonizing cargo transport in
Europe. As Luxembourg’s economy is intrinsically embedded in the European context, it
is important that internal transport fuel and infrastructure policies are aligned with
surrounding countries. Luxembourg might consider ‘transition fuels,’ such as biofuels
61 See http://www.huawei.com/en/news/2016/5/UKs-leading-smart-cities
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