The role of urban green infrastructure in offsetting carbon emissions in 35 major Chinese cities: A nationwide estimate

Chen, Wendy Y.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2015.01.005

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“…In the US, national-level carbon storage and sequestration by urban trees was evaluated [26], as well as state level urban forest carbon sequestration [18]. Other authors have reported city-scale carbon sequestration by urban forests and public trees in several US and Chinese cities [16,19,[27][28][29]. More recently, C storage and sequestration by urban trees in European cities such as Barcelona, Bolzano, Rome, and elsewhere are increasingly being studied [17,[30][31][32].…”

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“…Another body of research is exploring if the use of trees is indeed an effective policy and activity to mitigate local CO 2 emissions [14,16,17,28,34,35]. In terms of policy effectiveness, studies in the United States have documented that local level reforestation of degraded peri-urban areas can cost effectively be used to improve air quality while providing other co-benefits, such as CO 2 sequestration and wildlife habitat [36].…”

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Does “Greening” of Neotropical Cities Considerably Mitigate Carbon Dioxide Emissions? The Case of Medellin, Colombia

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Cities throughout the world are advocating highly promoted tree plantings as a climate change mitigation measure. Assessing the carbon offsets associated with urban trees relative to other climate change policies is vital for sustainable development, planning, and solving environmental and socio-economic problems, but is difficult in developing countries. We estimated and assessed carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) storage, sequestration, and emission offsets by public trees in the Medellin Metropolitan Area, Colombia, as a viable Nature-Based Solution for the Neotropics. While previous studies have discussed nature-based solutions and explored urban tree carbon dynamics in high income countries, few have been conducted in tropical cities in low-middle income countries, particularly within South America. We used a public tree inventory for the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley and an available urban forest functional model, i-Tree Streets, calibrated for Colombia's context. We found that CO 2 offsets from public trees were not as effective as cable cars or landfills. However, if available planting spaces are considered, carbon offsets become more competitive with cable cars and other air quality and socio-economic co-benefits are also provided. The use of carbon estimation models and the development of relevant carbon accounting protocols in Neotropical cities are also discussed. Our nature-based solution approach can be used to better guide management of urban forests to mitigate climate change and carbon offset accounting in tropical cities lacking available information.

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Does “Greening” of Neotropical Cities Considerably Mitigate Carbon Dioxide Emissions? The Case of Medellin, Colombia

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“…Before 2012, the CEs of PHPS changed between 0.02 Mt and 0.56 Mt, and their shares in the whole industrial CE could almost be neglected during 1994. However, over 2012-2015, the CEs of PHPS had become a very important component. The reason might arise from the fact that the CSTB, which was used to supply coal for power generation, had been built in 2012.…”

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Study of urban carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) accounting based on the comparable GPC framework: a case of the underdeveloped city, Nanning, China

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Gong

Xie

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Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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“…In the same way, compensation measures are adopted by cities to achieve their emissions reduction goals. Compensations typically involve creating carbon sinks-such as greenways, parks, gardens, green roofs, woodlands, waterways, community farms, forests, and wilderness areas [35]-and by producing renewable energy within and beyond city boundaries [32]. Among our case study cities, Copenhagen included emissions compensation from wind production beyond the city limits [17].…”

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Cities’ Greenhouse Gas Accounting Methods: A Study of Helsinki, Stockholm, and Copenhagen

Dahal

Niemelä

2017

Climate

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Cities generally adopt territorial-or production-based rather than consumption-based emissions accounting systems but they find difficult to adopt a specific emissions standard. Due to the diverse calculation methodologies cities use, inter-city emission reductions and climate action comparisons remain challenging. It is crucial to learn how cities address climate change mitigation and adaptation in terms of the emissions accounting methodologies they use, their links to existing city-level international emission standards, and the consistency of those methods used by cities to improve the quality of emissions standards. Normative case study method was applied to explore these issues in three different case cities: Helsinki (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), and Copenhagen (Denmark). The current calculation methods used in these cities exclude many indirect emissions, and these cities have not adopted consumption-based emissions. Cities also face several dilemmas in system boundaries and baseline year setting, emissions factors calculations, and data collection methods using current calculation methods. All three case cities have adopted amendable emissions accounting systems which exclude certain amounts of emissions from several sectors. Therefore, emission calculation methods must be improved to include all possible sectors and to produce more robust and transparent calculation methods.

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The role of urban green infrastructure in offsetting carbon emissions in 35 major Chinese cities: A nationwide estimate

Cited by 235 publications

References 70 publications

Does “Greening” of Neotropical Cities Considerably Mitigate Carbon Dioxide Emissions? The Case of Medellin, Colombia

Does “Greening” of Neotropical Cities Considerably Mitigate Carbon Dioxide Emissions? The Case of Medellin, Colombia

Study of urban carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) accounting based on the comparable GPC framework: a case of the underdeveloped city, Nanning, China

Cities’ Greenhouse Gas Accounting Methods: A Study of Helsinki, Stockholm, and Copenhagen

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The role of urban green infrastructure in offsetting carbon emissions in 35 major Chinese cities: A nationwide estimate

Cited by 235 publications

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Does “Greening” of Neotropical Cities Considerably Mitigate Carbon Dioxide Emissions? The Case of Medellin, Colombia

Does “Greening” of Neotropical Cities Considerably Mitigate Carbon Dioxide Emissions? The Case of Medellin, Colombia

Study of urban carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) accounting based on the comparable GPC framework: a case of the underdeveloped city, Nanning, China

Cities’ Greenhouse Gas Accounting Methods: A Study of Helsinki, Stockholm, and Copenhagen

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Study of urban carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) accounting based on the comparable GPC framework: a case of the underdeveloped city, Nanning, China