URCM Science Question 2
How can we quantify current and past carbon emissions/sinks in cities and regions?
Category: Science Questions
- 5th Urban Research Symposium: Cities and Climate Change - Responding to an Urgent Agenda
- A blueprint for the integrated assessment of climate change in cities
- A critical and comparative evaluation of approaches and policies to measure, benchmark, reduce and manage CO2 emissions from energy use in the existing building stock of developed and rapidly-developing countries - case studies of UK, USA, and India - Conference Paper
- A critical and comparative evaluation of approaches and policies to measure, benchmark, reduce and manage CO2 emissions from energy use in the existing building stock of developed and rapidly-developing countries - case studies of UK, USA, and India - Presentation
- A new methodology for quantifying on-site residential and commercial fossil fuel CO2 emissions at the building spatial scale and hourly time scale
- A spatial analysis of residential greenhouse gas emissions in the Toronto Census metropolitan area
- A Step Forward in the Evaluation of Urban Metabolism: Definition of Urban Typologies
- A temporal analysis of urban forest carbon storage using remote sensing
- An intensive two-week study of an urban CO2 dome in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Analyses of Urban Energy and Carbon Emission from Bangkok
- Anthropogenic and natural CO2 emission sources in an arid urban environment
- Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 and CH4 in an urban environment
- Are we missing the point? Urbanization, sustainability and carbon emissions in Latin American cities
- Assessing the carbon, heat and water vapor exchanges of lawn ecosystems in an urban area – case study of two heat wave periods
- Assessment of local strategies for countering greenhouse gas emissions: Case of Tokyo
- Beyond emissions: Scientific challenges in understanding cities and climate change
- C4 plant isotopic composition (δ13C) evidence for urban CO2 pollution in the city of Cotonou, Benin (West Africa)
- Can cities reduce global warming? Urban development and the carbon cycle in Latin America
- Carbon emissions and mitigations: Lessons from cross-city analyses in Asia
- Carbon storage by urban soils in the United States
- Carbon storage by urban tree cultivars, in roots and above-ground
- Carbon stored in human settlements: the conterminous US. Global Change Biology
- Challenges of Nagoya City for Realizing Low Carbon and Comfortable City
- Challenges of Urban and Regional Carbon Management and the Scientific Response
- Characteristics influencing the variability of urban CO2 fluxes in Melbourne, Australia
- Chicago Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Baseline Options: An Inventory, Forecast, and Mitigation Analysis for Chicago and the Metropolitan Region
- China: Emissions pattern of the world leader in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption and cement production
- Cities and climate change: The Tyndall Centre Cities Programme
- City-scale integrated assessment of climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation - Conference Paper
- City-scale integrated assessment of climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation - Presentation
- CO2 embodied in international trade with implications for global climate policy
- Comparative Study of Energy and Carbon Emissions Development Pathways and Climate Policy in Southeast Asian Cities - Conference Paper
- Comparative Study of Energy and Carbon Emissions Development Pathways and Climate Policy in Southeast Asian Cities - Presentation
- Comparing Mitigation Policies in Five Large Cities: London, New York, Milan, Mexico City, and Bangkok
- Comparison of urban energy use and carbon emission in Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul and Shanghai
- Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability through Innovation
- Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability through Innovation - Presentation
- Cross scale-linkages exhibited by urban energy use and carbon emissions in East Asia
- Current Status of Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions in Shanghai
- Daily and seasonal variation of CO2 in the city of Rome in relationship with the traffic volume
- Delve into carbon footprints: accounting for direct and indirect material flows, embodied energy and carbon emissions: allocating responsibility in the case of Singapore
- Delving into the carbon footprints of Singapore—comparing direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions of a small and open economic system
- Detecting carbon signatures of development patterns across a gradient of urbanization: Linking observations, models, and scenarios
- Detecting carbon signatures of development patterns across a gradient of urbanization: Linking observations, models, and scenarios - Presentation
- Development of an Urban Simulator for Achieving a Low Carbon City Target of Residential and Commercial Sectors of Nagoya City
- Does the urban CO2 dome of Phoenix, Arizona contribute to its heat island?
- Does urban sprawl cause the growth of transport CO2 emissions? – A statistical analysis and a look at policy options for the EU
- Does urban sprawl cause the growth of transport CO2 emissions? – A statistical analysis and a look at policy options for the EU - Presentation
- Dynamics of urbanized territories and future scenarios for anthropogenic carbon emissions: multi-scale analysis
- Eddy covariance measurements of CO2 fluxes from Mexico City
- Emission estimates and trends (1990–2000) for megacity Delhi and implications
- Emission inventory for greenhouse gases in the City of Barcelona, 1987–1996
- Emissions pattern of metro Manila
- Energy and GHG accounting and integrated assessment of London's climate change challenges
- Energy and Material Flow Through the Urban Ecosystem
- Energy and Material Management for Low Carbon Cities
- Energy Consumption and CO2 emissions in urban counties in the United States with a case study of the New-York Metropolitan Area - Conference Paper
- Energy Consumption and CO2 emissions in urban counties in the United States with a case study of the New-York Metropolitan Area - Presentation
- Energy demand and carbon emissions under different development scenarios for Shanghai, China
- Energy efficient urban form: Carbon implications of reducing urban sprawl in United States
- Energy Flow Indicators in Cities: The Retail Park Service Sector
- Energy in the Urban Environment: Use of Terra/Aster Imagery as a Tool in Urban Planning
- Energy requirements of Sydney households
- Energy Use in Cities
- Energy-related emissions and mitigation opportunities from the household sector in Delhi
- Estimates of CO2 emissions in Shanghai (China) in 1990 and 2010
- Estimating the geographic variability in greenhouse gas emissions from transportation: method and application
- Evaluation of emissions and air quality in megacities
- Experimental Statistics on carbon dioxide emissions at Local Authority and Regional Level
- Extended Life Cycle Assessment of Transportation System and Energy
- Forces driving urban greenhouse gas emissions
- Forming an Emissions Inventory, Energy Scenarios and Plans with Stakeholders: The Greenhouse Gas Regional Inventory Project - GRIP
- Fossil Fuel Data Assimilation: From toy to tool?
- GHG emissions from urbanization and opportunities for urban carbon mitigation
- GHG Emissions, Urban Mobility and Efficiency of Urban Morphology: A Hypothesis - Conference Paper
- GHG Emissions, Urban Mobility and Efficiency of Urban Morphology: A Hypothesis - Presentation
- Global Carbon Project: 10 Years of Advancing Knowledge on the Global Carbon Cycle and its Management
- Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions - Conference Paper
- Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions - Presentation
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities
- Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants in the City of Toronto: Towards a Harmonized Strategy for Reducing Emissions
- High resolution atmospheric monitoring of urban carbon dioxide sources
- High resolution fossil fuel combustion CO2 Emission Fluzes for the United States
- Hong Kong Carbon Audit Guidelines
- Houston Emissions Reduction Plan
- How to estimate the role of urban areas in continental carbon balance?
- Impact of urban sprawl on carbon uptake in Beijing metropolitan area
- Importance of urban carbon management and prevailing gaps in scientific understanding and policy discussions
- Integrated regional carbon analysis from anthropogenic and biospheric sources and sinks: a Colorado application of a holistic framework to evaluate the urban-rural interface
- Inventory of New York City Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Lisbon Case Study. Measuring the Embodied Energy in Household Goods
- Local and Regional CO2 Emissions Estimates for 2004 for the UK
- Local perspectives in the control of greenhouse gas emissions – The case of Rio de Janeiro
- Local-scale fluxes of carbon dioxide in urban environments: methodological challenges and results from Chicago
- London energy and CO2 emissions inventory (LECI) 2003
- London energy and CO2 emissions inventory 2003: user guide
- Low Carbon Development Scenario and Low Carbon Cities
- Low Carbon Policies and actions at city level
- Low Carbon Society Scenarios: India & Ahmedabad
- Managing cities and local communities: the use of life-cycle thinking through carbon footprint-based indicators - Conference Paper
- Managing cities and local communities: the use of life-cycle thinking through carbon footprint-based indicators - Presentation
- Mathematical Model of Urban Metabolism: Linking Material Stocks to Energy Flows
- Measurements of CO2 fluxes from the Mexico City urban landscape
- Measurements of trace-gas fluxes and the surface energy budget in the semi-arid urban Salt Lake Valley, Utah U.S.A.
- Methodology for inventorying greenhouse gas emissions from global cities
- Methods for estimating greenhouse gases from local places
- Modeling and Mapping Global Emissions of Carbon Dioxide: The Hestia Project
- Modeling approach to consider urban form for evaluation of city level energy management
- Modeling energy consumption and CO2 emissions at the urban scale: Methodological challenges and insights from the United States
- Modeling for Urban Energy and CO2 for Beijing
- Modeling of Geographically Explicit Land Use Scenarios
- Modeling the carbon cycle of urban systems
- Modeling the Urban Component of the Carbon Cycle
- Modelling carbon dynamics from urban land conversion: fundamental model of city in relation to a local carbon cycle
- Observation and comparison of C-fluxes of cities and peri-urban forests
- Opportunities and Challenges to Electrical Energy Conservation and CO2 Emissions Reduction in Nigeria’s Building Sector
- Opportunities and Challenges to Electrical Energy Conservation and CO2 Emissions Reduction in Nigeria’s Building Sector - Presentation
- Outcomes of the Global Carbon Project's first international conference on carbon management at urban and regional levels
- Quantifying the role of urban ecosystems on terrestrial carbon cycling
- Reduction Potential of CO2 Reduction by Integrated Energy Service System in Urban Area Considering the Generation Mix of Electric Utility
- Reductions in emissions of local air pollutants and co-benefits of Chinese energy policy: a Shanghai case study
- Regional variations in spatial structure of nightlights, population density and fossil-fuel CO2 emissions
- Satellite-based indices in the analysis of land cover for municipalities in the province of Siena, Italy
- Scenarios/Modeling/Backcasting: Tools and examples of low-carbon cites
- Seasonal and diurnal variations of near-surface atmospheric CO2 concentration within a residential sector of the urban CO2 dome of Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Soil carbon pools and fluxes in urban ecosystems
- Study of effects of building layout on carbon dioxide emissions
- Study on energy system simulation tool for urban design
- Sustainable cities – modelling urban energy supply and demand
- SynCity: An integrated framework for modelling urban energy systems
- Temporal patterns in near-surface CO2 concentrations over contrasting vegetation types in the Phoenix metropolitan area
- Temporal variations in atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Kuwait City, Kuwait with comparisons to Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- The carbon footprint of nations – a global, trade-linked analysis
- The CO2 emission reduction benefits of Chinese energy policies and environmental policies: A case study for Shanghai, period 1995–2020
- The Footprint of Urban Areas on Global Climate as Characterized by MODIS
- The Future of mobility in France: Behavioral and technological evolution - Conference Paper
- The Future of mobility in France: Behavioral and technological evolution - Presentation
- The Global Carbon Project and urban and regional carbon management
- The greenhouse gas balance of the province of Siena
- The Human Perturbation of Carbon Cycle
- The response of the terrestrial biosphere to urbanization: land cover conversion, climate, and urban pollution
- The Role of Land Use and Transportation System
- Towards a spatial CO2 budget of a metropolitan region based on textural image classification and flux measurements
- Towards an integrated urban assessment framework
- Transport, CO2 emissions and cap-and-trade schemes. How to integrate cities?
- Updated urban emission inventory with a high resolution in time and space for the city of Graz
- Urban Energy and Carbon Intensity in India and Its Determinants – A Household Level Analysis
- Urban energy and carbon inventory and modeling for Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
- Urban Energy Use and Carbon Emission in Jakarta: Modeling Challenges
- Urban Energy Use and Carbon Emissions from Cities in China and Policy Implications
- Urban Metabolism in City-region & Global Perspective - Linking the Evidence Base to Policy Applications
- Urban Transformation and Carbon Footprint of Mega-Cities in Japan and China
- Urbanised territories as a specific component of the Global Carbon Cycle
- Using the Energy and Climate Registry for carbon management in China
- Vulnerabilities and responses to climate change for Dhaka
- What do recent advances in quantifying climate and carbon cycle uncertainties mean for climate policy
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