Low carbon city action plans in Japan, India and China
1. Japan Japan’s research on low-carbon cities mainly focuses on the field of low-carbon society. In 2004, the Ministry of the Environment of Japan initiated the...
Urban planning and response to climate change
Theoretical research on low carbon cities
The development model of low-carbon cities has attracted the attention of many cities around the world. In the movement of all mankind to deal with climate...
The connotation of low carbon city
There is no generally accepted definition of a low-carbon city. Research and discussions on low-carbon cities have only emerged in recent years. Shimada et al. (2007)...
Low carbon economy development theory
1. Ecological footprint theory The concept of “Ecological Footprint” was first proposed by Canadian ecological economist W. Reis in 1992 and perfected by M. Weiknerg in...
Research progress of low carbon economy
In October 2006, entrusted by the British government, the British government economic adviser Stern led the compilation of the Stern report “The Economics of Climate Change:...
“Low-carbon economy” and its response
In the context of setbacks in the international institutional framework for climate change, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto...
China’s countermeasures and measures to deal with climate change part 2
5. Low-carbon development pilot Shanghai Chongming Island Dongtan Eco-city is the world’s first sustainable urban plan for zero-carbon development. In January 2008, the World Wide Fund...
China’s countermeasures and measures to deal with climate change part 1
The fourth global climate assessment report published by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 pointed out that global warming is an...
China’s carbon emission trends and changes in traditional urban development models
China’s carbon emission trends On September 30, 2008, Ross Garnaut of Georgia published the Garnaut Climate Change Review (Garnaut Climate Change Review), stating: since 2000, with...
China’s urbanization trend
At the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Hu Jintao set a goal of quadrupling per capita GDP by 2020 from...