[HTML][HTML] Visions for climate neutrality and opportunities for co-learning in European cities

Ş Kılkış, G Ulpiani, N Vetters - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cities represent unique spaces for climate mitigation where wide-ranging action to reduce
emissions meets ambition and collaboration. This research work distils climate neutrality …

City-level emission peak and drivers in China

Y Shan, Y Guan, Y Hang, H Zheng, Y Li, D Guan, J Li… - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
China is playing an increasing role in global climate change mitigation, and local authorities
need more city-specific information on the emissions trends and patterns when designing …

Are cities taking action against urban overheating? Insights from over 7,500 local climate actions

G Ulpiani, A Treville, P Bertoldi, N Vetters, P Barbosa… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
Mitigating urban overheating is vital to create livable urban futures. Research on urban heat
mitigation is plentiful, while knowledge about the actual measures local governments are …

Carbon Monitor Cities near-real-time daily estimates of CO2 emissions from 1500 cities worldwide

D Huo, X Huang, X Dou, P Ciais, Y Li, Z Deng, Y Wang… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Building on near-real-time and spatially explicit estimates of daily carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions, here we present and analyze a new city-level dataset of fossil fuel and cement …

Cities and regions tackle climate change mitigation but often focus on less effective solutions

K Burley Farr, K Song, ZY Yeo, E Johnson… - Communications earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Although the potential for cities and regions to contribute to global mitigation efforts is widely
acknowledged, there is little evidence on the effectiveness of subnational mitigation …

[HTML][HTML] Key dimensions of cities' engagement in the transition to climate neutrality

M Salvia, F Pietrapertosa, V D'alonzo… - Journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urbanization and the concentration of energy-consuming economic activities make cities
responsible for more than 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, cities …

[HTML][HTML] The role of sustainable energy and climate action plans: Synergies with regional sustainable development strategies for a local 2030 agenda

A Colocci, E Gioia, C Casareale, N Marchetti… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current environmental and socio-economic crises call for urgent actions, the efficacy of
which depend on the coordination among different levels of governance. Response …

Environmental and welfare gains via urban transport policy portfolios across 120 cities

C Liotta, V Viguié, F Creutzig - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
City-level policies are increasingly recognized as key components of strategies to reduce
transport greenhouse gas emissions. However, at a global scale, their total efficiencies …

Predicting European cities' climate mitigation performance using machine learning

A Hsu, X Wang, J Tan, W Toh, N Goyal - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Although cities have risen to prominence as climate actors, emissions' data scarcity has
been the primary challenge to evaluating their performance. Here we develop a scalable …

Near-real-time daily estimates of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from major high-emission cities in China

D Huo, K Liu, J Liu, Y Huang, T Sun, Y Sun, C Si, J Liu… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Cities in China are on the frontline of low-carbon transition which requires monitoring city-
level emissions with low-latency to support timely climate actions. Most existing CO2 …