At the Seoul C40 Large Cities Climate Summit 2009, Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 2D and 3D design and engineering software, today announced it is partnering with the Clinton Climate Initiative, a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation, to provide visualization technology for Project Two Degrees. Project Two Degrees is an Internet-based application that provides cities with a set of tools to measure, compare, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a local level.
Autodesk is joining CCI and Microsoft Corporation to help sponsor the Project Two Degrees initiative. The sponsors, working with Project Two Degrees stakeholders. The project’s Web-based software enables cities to calculate the carbon footprint of both municipal operations and the communities they service in a uniform way. Additionally, Project Two Degrees enables cities to plan meaningful actions that save energy and money and that make a profound impact in the fight against climate change. In the initial pilot phase, participants in the C40, a group of the world’s largest cities committed to tackling climate change, will be the first to be invited to use the Project Two Degrees emissions tracking software.
Autodesk will provide the technology that will act as the model-based visualization environment used to view, evaluate and compare the results of analysis and monitoring in the C40 city. Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise software is a powerful mapping solution for delivering information more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively via the web.
To complement Project Two Degrees tools, Autodesk also provides building performance analysis tools to help cities take
meaningful actions in curbing local and regional impacts from climate change, and can help save money, conserve energy, and track tangible progress.
For more information please visit www.project2degrees.org