URCM Science Question 5
What management strategies can influence carbon mitigation in cities?
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 Climate Change Strategy for Peterborough
- 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 low carbon development guide for local government actions in China
- A low-carbon scenario creation method for a local-scale economy and its application in Kyoto city
- A Third Industrial Revolution Master Plan to Transition Rome into the World's First Post Carbon Biosphere City (Rome Climate Change Master Plan)
- ACT Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Existing policy baseline projections to 2050
- Action Plan 2007-2011 Progress Report
- Action Today to Protect Tomorrow: The Mayor’s Climate Change Action Plan
- Adaptation and mitigation in urban areas: synergies and conflicts
- Agent-based modeling of urban energy supply systems facing climate protection constraints - Conference Paper
- Agent-based modeling of urban energy supply systems facing climate protection constraints - Presentation
- Air Quality and Climate Change Management Plan for the City of Ottawa
- Amsterdam: A Different Energy - 2040 Energy Strategy
- Analyses of Urban Energy and Carbon Emission from Bangkok
- Analysis of energy service systems in urban areas and their CO2 mitigations and economic impacts
- Approaches for analyzing local carbon mitigation strategies: Tompkins County, New York, USA
- Assessing the impacts, vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation to climate change in Kampala City
- Assessing the impacts, vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation to climate change in Kampala City - Presentation
- Assessing the Role of Technologies: Prospects of Development and Diffusion of Low-Carbon Technologies
- Assessment of local strategies for countering greenhouse gas emissions: Case of Tokyo
- Atmospheric Carbon Reduction by Urban Trees
- Austin Community Climate Protection Plan
- Bangkok Metropolitan Administration: Action Plan on Global Warming Mitigation 2007 - 2012
- Beyond emissions: Scientific challenges in understanding cities and climate change
- Brisbane’s Plan For Action on Climate Change and Energy
- Brisbane’s Plan for Action on Climate Change and Energy 2007
- Building local partnerships to mitigate climate change: the role of student research
- Calgary Climate Change Action Plan
- Can cities reduce global warming? Urban development and the carbon cycle in Latin America
- Capacity to Act: The Critical Determinant of Local Energy Planning and Program Implementation
- Capacity to Act: The Critical Determinant of Local Energy Planning and Program Implementation - Presentation
- Cape Town Energy and Climate Change Strategy
- Carbon and water management in urbanization
- Carbon emissions and mitigations: Lessons from cross-city analyses in Asia
- Carbon Management and Institutional Issues in European Cities
- Carbon Management in US Cities and States
- Carbon Reduction in Buildings and Cities - Measures Taken in the World and Japan
- Carbon Reduction Measures in Building Sectors Tokyo and NYC
- Carbon Reduction Measures in Sydney Buildings
- Carbon sequestration in urban turf soils
- Carbon storage and sequestration by urban trees in the USA
- Carbon stored in human settlements: the conterminous US. Global Change Biology
- CDM and urban air pollution: targeting synergies in urban air quality and climate change mitigation
- Challenge for carbon emission reduction in Ulaanbaatar city
- Challenges for Analyzing Urban Energy and Carbon
- Challenges for city planners for carbon management and how science can help
- Challenges of Urban and Regional Carbon Management and the Scientific Response
- Chicago Climate Action Plan
- Chicago Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Baseline Options: An Inventory, Forecast, and Mitigation Analysis for Chicago and the Metropolitan Region
- China’s Low Carbon Development in the Context of Rapid Economic Growth
- Cities and Climate Change Initiatives at ADB
- Cities and Climate Change Initiatives at OECD
- Cities and Climate Change: The role of institutions, governance and urban planning - Conference Paper
- Cities and Climate Change: The role of institutions, governance and urban planning - Presentation
- Cities and climate change: The Tyndall Centre Cities Programme
- Cities and climate change: urban sustainability and global environmental governance
- Cities and climate change: Which options do we have for a safe and sustainable future? - Conference Paper
- Cities and climate change: Which options do we have for a safe and sustainable future? - Presentation
- Cities and the Governing of Climate Change
- Cities and the Multilevel Governance of Global Climate Change - Journal Article
- Cities and the Multilevel Governance of Global Climate Change - Presentation
- Cities for Climate Protection Campaign
- Cities, mobility, and climate change
- Cities, Towns and Renewable Energy -- Yes In My Front Yard
- City Forms, Land Use and Transportation in Chinese Cities
- City Indicators on Climate Change: Implications for Policy Leverage and Governance - Conference Paper
- City Indicators on Climate Change: Implications for Policy Leverage and Governance - Presentation
- City of Bellingham: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Climate Protection Action Plan
- City of Berkeley Climate Action Plan
- City of Boulder, Colorado: The Climate Action Plan
- City of Leicester: Climate Change Strategy
- City of Lincoln Climate Change Strategy: Phase 1
- City of Madrid Plan for Efficient Use of Energy and Climate Change Prevention
- City of Melbourne: Greenhouse Action Plan 2006-2010
- City of Worcester, Massachusetts: Climate Action Plan
- Clean and Renewable Energy Sources
- Clean Development Mechanism as a mitigation opportunity at urban level: issues and challenges
- Climate bonds: mobilizing private financing for carbon management
- Climate Change Action Plan for Brighton & Hove
- Climate Change and Cities: The Making of a Climate Friendly Future
- Climate Change and Food Security in Cities
- Climate Change and Food Security in Cities - Presentation
- Climate change and public policies at the local scale: The complexity of the task - Conference Paper
- Climate change and public policies at the local scale: The complexity of the task - Presentation
- Climate Change and the Resilience of New Orleans: The Adaptation of Deltaic Urban Form - Conference Paper
- Climate Change and the Resilience of New Orleans: The Adaptation of Deltaic Urban Form - Presentation
- Climate change and urban planning in South-East Asia - Conference Paper
- Climate change and urban planning in South-East Asia - Presentation
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation in North American cities
- Climate Change Strategy for Coventry
- Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan: Moving from Framework to Action (Phase 1)
- Climate Change, National-Local Policy Frameworks and Actions in Japan
- Climate Change: an Adaptation & Mitigation Agenda for Indian Cities
- Climate Protection Manual for Cities
- 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 Climate Change Policy Netwoks (COMPON)
- Comparing Mitigation Policies in Five Large Cities: London, New York, Milan, Mexico City, and Bangkok
- Comparison of Cities in the World - A View of the Data on Urban Form, Urban Transportation, and Energy Consumption
- Comparison of urban energy use and carbon emission in Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul and Shanghai
- Conference Report: US–China Workshop on Pathways Toward Low Carbon Cities: quantifying baselines and interventions
- Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability through Innovation
- Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability through Innovation - Presentation
- Contextualizing carbon reduction initiatives: how should carbon mitigation be addressed by various cities worldwide?
- Creating an Urban Movement for Sustainable Living
- Current Status of Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions in Shanghai
- Darebin City Council: Climate Change Action Plan
- Decision-making tools for evaluating the impact of materials selection on the carbon footprint of buildings
- Deep energy retrofit of commercial buildings: a key pathway toward low-carbon cities
- Delve into carbon footprints: accounting for direct and indirect material flows, embodied energy and carbon emissions: allocating responsibility in the case of Singapore
- Development of an Urban Simulator for Achieving a Low Carbon City Target of Residential and Commercial Sectors of Nagoya City
- Do governments have the right mix in their energy R&D portfolios?
- Does Global Climate Policy Promote Low-Carbon Cities? Lessons Learnt from the CDM
- Domestic energy use in Australian cities
- Down to Earth: local government and greenhouse policy in Australia
- Effects of urban tree management and species selection on atmospheric carbon dioxide
- Emission inventory: An urban public policy instrument and benchmark
- Energy and environmental implications of carbon emission reduction targets: Case of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
- Energy and GHG accounting and integrated assessment of London's climate change challenges
- Energy and Material Flow Through the Urban Ecosystem
- Energy balance of urban quarters for the development of energy efficiency and management strategies - Conference Paper
- Energy balance of urban quarters for the development of energy efficiency and management strategies - Presentation
- 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 efficient urban form: Carbon implications of reducing urban sprawl in United States
- Energy Flow Indicators in Cities: The Retail Park Service Sector
- Energy management in Lucknow city
- Energy Saving Measures in City Buildings
- Energy Use and Carbon Emission in Metro Manila
- Energy use and carbon emissions in London (UK): Planning for carbon mitigation, achievements and policy challenges
- Energy use and carbon emissions in Mexico City: drivers, challenges & opportunities
- Energy Use and Climate Change: Challenges & Opportunities in Indian Mega-Cities
- Energy use and CO2 mitigation in Shanghai：Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- Energy use and local perspectives in the control of greenhouse gas emission: The cases of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo
- Energy-Efficient Urban Form
- Energy-related emissions and mitigation opportunities from the household sector in Delhi
- Environmental Programme for the City of Malmö 2009 – 2020
- Evaluating climate change mitigation strategies in south east Queensland
- Exeter Climate Change Strategy
- Explaining local commitment to climate change policy in the United States through the dimensions of risk, stress, and capacity - Conference Paper
- Explaining local commitment to climate change policy in the United States through the dimensions of risk, stress, and capacity - Presentation
- Extended Life Cycle Assessment of Transportation System and Energy
- Forces driving urban greenhouse gas emissions
- Getting to carbon neutral: a review of best practices in infrastructure strategy - Conference Paper
- Getting to carbon neutral: a review of best practices in infrastructure strategy - Presentation
- GHG accounting for public transport in Xiamen city, China
- 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
- Global climate policy: will cities lead the way?
- Gloucester City: Climate Change Strategy
- Governance and climate change: Assessing and learning from Canadian cities
- Governance and climate change: Assessing and learning from Canadian cities - Presentation
- Green Growth: A Regional Strategy for Achieving Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
- Green LA: Mayor's Action Plan to Lead the Nation in Fighting Global Warming
- Green light to clean power: the mayor's energy strategy
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions
- Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants in the City of Toronto: Towards a Harmonized Strategy for Reducing Emissions
- Hamilton: Air Quality and Climate Change Corporate Strategic Plan
- Health co-benefits of climate mitigation in urban areas
- Houston Emissions Reduction Plan
- How do local authorities in Mexico City manage global warming? lessons learnt
- How do Local Governments in Latin America Manage Global Warming?
- How do Local Governments in Mexico City Manage Global Warming?
- Impact of future urban form on the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from residential, commercial and public buildings in Utsunomiya, Japan
- Impacts and mitigation of climate change on Chinese cities
- Impacts of urban form on future US passenger-vehicle greenhouse gas emissions
- Impacts of urban greenspace on offsetting carbon emissions for middle Korea
- Importance of urban carbon management and prevailing gaps in scientific understanding and policy discussions
- Importance of urban carbon management in global carbon management
- Improving the relevance of case studies for carbon management
- Increasing Variety of Vertical and Horizontal Interplay in Climate Politics
- Institutional challenges to climate risk management in cities
- Institutional Diagnostics and Climate Change Post 2012
- Institutional Issues in Carbon Management in China
- Integrated energy and carbon modeling with a decision support system: Policy scenarios for low-carbon city development in Bangkok
- Integrating air pollutant and greenhouse gas emission reduction at the urban level
- Integrating carbon management into development strategies of cities – establishing a network of case studies of urbanisation in the Asia-Pacific
- Integrating carbon management into the development strategies of urbanizing regions in Asia: implications of urban function, form, and role
- Integrating global environmental concerns into urban management: the scale and readiness arguments
- Integrating renewable energy into new developments: toolkit for planners, developers and consultants
- International and National Carbon Governance: Border Adjustment in Japanese Climate Policy: Why they do not care for it?
- International Organizations and National Carbon Management
- International Standard for Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Cities (Draft)
- Inventory of New York City Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Investigation of regional CO2 absorption potential using wood biomass
- Investing in London’s low carbon future: summary report
- Japanese Urban Policies to Tackle Climate Change
- Japan’s Policy for Low Carbon Society
- Linking social actors by linking social theories: toward improved GHG mitigation strategies
- Linking urban development and climate change mitigation and adaptation in a small city: an approach in Cuenca, Spain - Conference Paper
- Linking urban development and climate change mitigation and adaptation in a small city: an approach in Cuenca, Spain - Presentation
- Local and Regional CO2 Emissions Estimates for 2004 for the UK
- Local and regional greenhouse gas management
- Local Authority Carbon Management Programme: Plymouth City Council’s Strategy and Implementation Plan (SIP)
- Local climate action strategy Mexico City
- Local government and the governing of climate change in Germany and the UK
- Local Government Implementation of Climate Protection: Case Studies
- Local perspectives in the control of greenhouse gas emissions – The case of Rio de Janeiro
- Local sustainable development and carbon neutrality in cities in developing and emerging countries
- Local-scale analysis of carbon mitigation strategies: Tompkins County, New York, USA
- London and beyond: Taking a closer look at urban energy policy
- Low carbon cities and behavioral change
- Low Carbon Metropolis Tokyo’s Climate Change Measures
- Low Carbon Transport in Asia: Strategies for Optimizing Co-benefits
- Low‐carbon Business and Environmental Policy
- Manchester City Council: Manchester. A Certain Future.
- Manchester Energy Strategy 2005 - 2010
- Material and Energy Flow in Municipalities - The Use of Environmental Management Accounting
- Meeting the challenge: develop an effective financial mechanism for China carbon emissions reduction
- Mexico City Climate Action Program 2008 - 2012
- Mexico City fuel savings and emission reductions by improving vehicle air conditioning
- Mitigating climate change in US cities: opportunities and obstacles
- Mitigation opportunities, constraints and challenges for urban and regional carbon management at multiple scales
- Modeling approach to consider urban form for evaluation of city level energy management
- Moving from agenda to action: evaluating local climate change action plans
- Multilevel Governance, Networking Cities and Climate Change: Experiences from Two Swedish Cities
- Nagoya University Initiative for Low-Carbon Cities
- Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles
- Nelson City Council’s Communities for Climate Protection Programme: Local Action Plan
- Nelson City Council’s Communities for Climate Protection Programme: Sustainability Action Plan
- New Amsterdam Climate - Summary of plans and ongoing projects
- New consumers as key target groups for sustainability against the background of climate change in emerging economies: the case of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Conference Paper
- New consumers as key target groups for sustainability against the background of climate change in emerging economies: the case of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Presentation
- Opportunities for carbon mitigation in public sector Infrastructure: “local action moves the World”
- Outcomes of the Global Carbon Project's first international conference on carbon management at urban and regional levels
- Oxford Climate Change Action Plan
- Paradoxical cities: Lower carbon emissions might not lead to low carbon cities
- Paris Climate Plan
- Pathways Toward Low-Carbon Cities: a US–China Focus
- Placing carbon reduction in the context of sustainable development priorities: a global perspective
- Planning for climate and carbon friendly cities: challenges in Kampala city region
- Planning for low-carbon communities in US cities: a participatory process model between academic institutions, local governments and communities in Colorado
- Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements 2009
- PLANYC - A Greener, Greater New York
- PLANYC - Progress Report 2008
- PLANYC - Progress Report 2009
- Policy Implications of MFA: Case Study of Geneva, Switzerland
- Policy Update: ICLEI USA draft framework for measuring and reporting community GHG emissions
- Politics, institutions and entrepreneurship: city decisions leading to inventoried GHG emissions
- Poor, urban planning and adaptation to climate change: Tales of Haitian cities - Conference Paper
- Poor, urban planning and adaptation to climate change: Tales of Haitian cities - Presentation
- Portland: Climate Action Plan 2009
- Practical Perspectives of Institutional Issues of Urban Carbon Management in Asia
- Prevention of Urban and Global Warming
- Profiting from Negawatts: Reducing Absolute Consumption and Emissions through a Performance-based Energy Economy
- Progress toward low carbon cities: approaches for transboundary GHG emissions’ footprinting
- Proposal of a modeling approach considering urban form for evaluation of city level energy management
- Québec and Climate Change – A Challenge for the Future.
- Reducing energy and material flows in cities
- 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
- Reshaping urban metabolism
- Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
- Responsibility, opportunity, and vision for higher education in urban and regional carbon management
- Rethinking sustainable cities: multilevel governance and the 'urban' politics of climate change
- Review of the impact of the energy policies in the London Plan on applications referred to the Mayor (Phase 2)
- Rotterdam Climate City: Mitigation Action Programme 2010
- Rotterdam Climate Initiative: The New Rotterdam
- Scale matters in environmental governance
- Seattle, a Climate of Change: Meeting the Kyoto Challenge: Climate Action Plan
- Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America
- Singapore’s National Climate Change Strategy
- Skills for a low carbon London: summary report and recommendations on the skills gaps in the energy efficiency and renewable energy sector in London
- Stockholm Action Plan for Climate and Energy 2010-2020
- Study of effects of building layout on carbon dioxide emissions
- Study on methodology about environmentally friendly urban development for creating cool spots and reducing CO2 emissions in urban area
- Sustainable Sydney 2030
- Sustainable Sydney 2030: Support Document
- Sustainable urban planning and urban responses to climate change - A review of practices in the ACT, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia - Presentation
- Sustainable urban planning and urban responses to climate change:
A review of practices in the ACT, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia - Conference Paper - Tackling Climate Change in the Post-2012 Regime: The Role of Cities and Urban Regions in Asia
- Tackling urban CO2 emissions in Toronto
- The ACT Climate Change Strategy - action plan 2007 - 2011
- The Challenge Facing Cities Across the World in Coping with the Sustainability Crisis
- The Cities for Climate Protection Campaign (CCPC) and the framing of local climate policy
- The City of Stockholm’s Climate Initiatives
- The CO2 emission reduction benefits of Chinese energy policies and environmental policies: A case study for Shanghai, period 1995–2020
- The Cool Vancouver Task Force’s Community Climate Change Action Plan: Creating Opportunities
- 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 Cycle
- The Global Carbon Project and urban and regional carbon management
- The jurisdictional framework for municipal action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: case studies from Canada, the USA and Germany
- The London community heating development study-summary report
- The mayor of London’s submission to the energy review
- The multiple policy dimensions of carbon management: mitigation, adaptation and geoengineering
- The potential of urban tree plantings to be cost effective in carbon credit markets
- The Potential role of municipal open space in carbon management at the local government level
- The progress of English and Welsh local authorities in addressing climate change
- The Scale and the Readiness Arguments in Integrating Global Concerns into Urban Management
- The scope of action for local climate policy: the case of Norway
- The transition to an urbanizing world and the demand for natural resources
- The urban process at the Guayaquil City, Ecuador: an opportunity for carbon management
- The Vision of Urban Spatial Planning Based on the Concept of Low-Carbon City
- Tokyo Cap-and-Trade Program
- Tokyo Cap-and-Trade Program: Tokyo-ETS
- Tokyo Climate Change Strategy - A Basic Policy for the 10-Year Project for a Carbon-Minus Tokyo
- Tokyo Renewable Energy Strategy - Create a Sustainable Future by choosing renewable energy (Summary)
- Towards a Low-Carbon Society and its Relevance to Mountainous Regions
- Towards CO2 neutral city planning and low energy redevelopment – Presenting the Rotterdam Energy Approach and Planning (REAP) - Conference Paper
- Towards CO2 neutral city planning and low energy redevelopment – Presenting the Rotterdam Energy Approach and Planning (REAP)- Presentation
- Towards Low Carbon Cities in Rapidly Urbanizing Asia: Climatic Change Mitigation Strategy in Building Sector
- Towards zero carbon developments: supportive information for boroughs
- Transport and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Mitigation Measure - Conference Paper
- Transport and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Mitigation Measure - Presentation
- Transport, CO2 emissions and cap-and-trade schemes. How to integrate cities?
- Twelve metropolitan carbon footprints: A preliminary comparative global assessment
- Unequal Distribution of Pollution and Environmental Governance Capacity in China and the Implications for Carbon Reduction
- Urban energy and carbon inventory and modeling for Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
- Urban Energy and Carbon Management: New York City Case Study
- Urban Energy Transition: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Power
- Urban Energy Use and Carbon Emission in Jakarta: Modeling Challenges
- Urban energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from Asian Mega-cities: policies for a sustainable future
- Urban energy use, carbon management and urban heat island: Linking mitigation and adaptation to climate change
- Urban Form and Transport Policies: Integrated Planning Approach and Governance to Meet Climate Change. Lessons from Barcelona and Hannover
- Urban policy and governance in a global environment: complex systems, scale mismatches and public participation
- Urban System Metabolism Analysis: An Approach for the Definition of Urban Strategic Actions
- Urban transportation and the environment in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: integrating global carbon concerns into local air pollution management
- Urban Transportation, Energy Use and Carbon Emissions in Selected Asian Cities
- Using integrated urban models to respond to climate change in cities - Conference Paper
- Using integrated urban models to respond to climate change in cities - Presentation
- Using the Energy and Climate Registry for carbon management in China
- Viral Governance and Mixed Motivations: How and Why U.S. Cities Engaged on the Climate Change Issue, 2005 - 2007
- Viral Governance and Mixed Motivations: How and Why U.S. Cities Engaged on the Climate Change Issue, 2005 - 2007 - Presentation
- Vulnerabilities and responses to climate change for Dhaka
- Weathering the Change: The ACT Climate Change Strategy 2007-2025
- Wellington City Council Climate Change Action Plan: Creating a Carbon Neutral Council and Community
- What About Local Climate Governance? A Review of Promise and Problems
- What changes, if any, would increased levels of low-carbon decentralised energy have on the built environment?
- What parameters influence the spatial variations in CO2 emissions from road traffic in Berlin? implications for urban planning to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions
- Yokohama CO-DO30 Road Map
- Zero net emissions by 2020: a roadmap to a climate neutral city
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