Creating Low Carbon Cities 1st Edition by Shobhakar Dhakal 3319497303 9783319497303

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎3319497303

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783319497303

Author: Shobhakar Dhakal  

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. These include appropriate infrastructure, ensuring co-benefits 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. This 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. This book provides invaluable information and analysis on how the goals of this agenda can be achieved and what will be the significant obstacles in the way. The 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, Creating Low Carbon Cities serves as a critical scholarly benchmark and as a toolkit for further action.” William Solecki, Professor, Institute for Sustainable Cities, City University of New York “Creating Low Carbon Cities provides a refreshingly critical approach to low-carbon urban development, what has been achieved so far and the challenges ahead. It will be an important data-driven resource for local leaders, sustainability practitioners and urban planners.” Ms. Monika Zimmermann, Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI—Local Governments for Sustainability

Creating Low Carbon Cities 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
Importance of City-Level Climate Mitigation and Adaption
Significance of Including Co-benefits and co-costs in City-Level Climate Action
2 Economic Argument for Including Co-benefits and Co-costs
Optimal Abatement Levels Including Direct Benefits and Co-benefits
3 Representative Cities and Their Climate Mitigation Plans
Cities in Developed Nations
Cities in Developing Nations
Climate Action Categories
4 City Climate Action Plan Analysis
Differences in Action Categories and Their Frequencies
Identification or Recognition of Co-benefits and Co-costs
5 Insights and Implications from the Network Analysis of City Action Plans
References
Optimizing Water-Energy-Carbon Nexus in Cities for Low Carbon Development

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