Development of low-carbon city in China: Where will it go?

Su, Meirong; Chen, Bin; Tong, Xing; Chen, C.; Zhi-yong, Yang

doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2012.01.107

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“…(Su, 2012). Facing the increasingly serious challenge of environmental change (levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have risen by more than a third since the industrial revolution and are now increasing faster than ever before) and decline of indigenous energy supplies (by 2020 the country could be dependent on imported energy for three quarters of its total primary energy needs), the UK government proposed a future scenario named "low carbon economy" in the energy white paper "Our Energy Future-Creating a Low Carbon Economy" issued by Department of Trade andIndustry in 2003 (DOTI, 2003).…”

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Global Need for Low Carbon Architecture

Khamseh¹

2014

JSD

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Low carbon architecture (Note 1) can be solution to reduce the global environmental impacts which affect all mankind. Huge amount of greenhouse gases emissions in last few decades are responsible for great part of global warming, climate changes, ozone layer depletion and other environmental issues. These vary from emissions during manufacturing of the building materials, to the emissions generated till the end of the building's life. The current research explores the necessity of carbon emission reduction at global scale and the different carbon emission reduction opportunities in the building industry. It states the various strategies which help in carbon emission reduction during different stages of building cycle including construction, operation and demolition. By following sustainable architecture techniques it is possible to minimize the negative impacts of buildings on the environment and to have healthier environment which allows future generations to benefit from it.

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Global Need for Low Carbon Architecture

Khamseh¹

2014

JSD

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“…In case of innovation and cooperation of carbon emission technologies, China has a big potential. Actually, there is a large gap between China and other developing countries in terms of low carbon technology adoption [50]. China needs to increase international cooperation and share technical experiences with international partners for gaining low carbon technology and establish a low carbon economy [51].…”

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“…The extensive development pattern is established based on high energy consumption. The development pattern should be transformed to low carbon consumption without hampering production level by adopting low carbon technologies [50] (Figure 3). …”

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Practices of Low Carbon Economy in China: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Development

Sarker¹,

Hossin²,

Anusara³

et al. 2018

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Global warming is a major concern in the globalized world in the aspect of industrialization. Low carbon practices are the major strategies to control global warming. Low carbon economy is the fundamental pattern of the mainstream economy in the perspective of ecology. The aim of this study is to explore the status of low carbon economy of China through assessing low carbon practices. It also finds out the challenges and opportunities of low carbon practices for sustainable economic development. An extensive literature review with meta-analysis has been done considering various indicators of low carbon practices. The study explores that China already adopted some policy, strategy, and practices regarding low carbon economy. China already set its policy regarding control of carbon emission by 2030. Research and innovation in low carbon practices, low carbon industrial structure, low carbon technology adoption and emphasizes on environmental sustainability are the major initiatives of China for low carbon economy. Major challenges regarding low carbon practices are heavy pressure on carbon emission, heavy industrialization, extensive development stream, resource endowment, unplanned industrial structure and trade, and confusion regarding industrial transformation. This study suggests that vigorous and efficient planning in industrialization, improved technology adoption, ecological consideration in every project and sufficient finance are necessary to obtain better low carbon economy in China.

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“…Berlin, Copenhagen, Barcelona and Hangzhou have established a series of policies of low-carbon city construction regarding energy usage structure, industrial structure, public transportation, building design, household consumption, and public awareness [7,[9][10][11]. Malmo, Baoding, Jilin and Shanghai have established concrete measures in specific fields, such as exploiting new energy, adjusting energy supply modes, regulating industrial structure, and developing low-carbon demonstration areas [9,[11][12][13][14].…”

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“…It is reported that about 1,050 cities in the United States, 40 cities in India, and more than 100 cities in China have established an objective of low-carbon development and made efforts to reduce carbon emissions [12,15,16]. This indicates that the low-carbon city has become a new goal of urban development.…”

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Evaluation of a Low-Carbon City: Method and Application

Rong-hua

Lü

et al. 2013

Entropy

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Many cities around the World have established the development objective of becoming a low-carbon city. Evaluation of such a city is important for its progress. A new evaluation framework of urban low-carbon development level is proposed in this paper, which integrates synthetic evaluation based on a bottom-up idea and analytical diagnosis based on a top-down idea. Further, set pair analysis is combined for synthetic evaluation and analytical diagnosis by comparing urban low-carbon development levels of different cities, through which the comprehensive state of urban low-carbon development level can be obtained and limiting factors identified. Based on the proposed framework and set pair analysis, low-carbon development levels of 12 Chinese cities are compared. Some suggestions are provided, based on results of overall situations of urban low-carbon development level and concrete performances of various factors and specific indicators. We conclude that both synthetic evaluation and analytical diagnosis are important for evaluation of urban low-carbon development level. The proposed framework and method can be widely applied in the evaluation of different cities over a long-term period.

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Development of low-carbon city in China: Where will it go?

Cited by 44 publications

References 3 publications

Global Need for Low Carbon Architecture

Global Need for Low Carbon Architecture

Practices of Low Carbon Economy in China: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Development

Evaluation of a Low-Carbon City: Method and Application

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