Creating Low Carbon Cities

This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally. Contributions by experts from around the world focus on the key factors required for creating low carbon cities. Th ese include appropriate infrastructure, ensuring co-benefi ts of climate actions, making best use of knowledge and information, proper accounting of emissions, and social factors such as behavioral change. Readers will gain a better understanding of these drivers and explore potential transformation pathways for cities.

Particular emphasis is given to the current situation of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the urban level, stressing the complexity of measuring GHG emissions from cities. Chapters also shed new light on the long-term transformation pathways towards low carbon. Th is book discusses key challenges and opportunities in all these domains to aid in creating low carbon cities, making it of value to policy makers, researchers in academia and consultants working on climate change and energy issues.

'The low carbon cities agenda is of bold ambition and demands rapid societal transformation. Th is book provides invaluable information and analysis on how the goals of this agenda can be achieved and what will be the signifi cant obstacles in the way. Th e content in the book goes below the surface to reveal on-the-ground economic, engineering and equity issues that are at the heart of the Paris Climate Agreement and the ensuing policy debates. In this way, 

'Low-Carbon Cities serves as a critical scholarly benchmark and as a toolkit for further action.'

Ms. Monika Zimmermann, Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability