Zero Carbon City Exhibition 17 - 30 March 2008

Maputo hosted the Zero Carbon City Exhibition during the last two weeks of March 2008. The first such exhibition in Mozambique. Maputo was the exhibition's final stop on its mini tour of Southern Africa including Botswana and Zambia.

The exhibition was housed in the impressive fort (which if sea levels rise by 1 metre by 2050, as has been predicted, would be underwater). Whilst Mozambique has been a world leader in renewable energy for decades - Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam produces very few carbon emissions - the exhibition helped to raise the profile of environmental and climate change the likely effects of climate change.

The photo modules of the exhibition were a dramatic tool to raise awareness of the UK's work on climate change. It formed the back drop for a climate change speech at a reception, an exhibition on low energy products featuring wind up radios and torches to solar powered phone chargers and water powered calculators and some mini fuel cell cars.

It attracted several hundred members of the public outside of the specific events, gaining press and radio coverage.