Competitive cities and climate change
This report offers a comprehensive analysis of how cities and metropolitan regions can change the way we think about responding to climate change. This report illustrates how local involvement through "climate-conscious" urban planning and management can help achieve national climate goals and minimise tradeoffs between environmental and economic priorities. Six main chapters analyse the link between urbanisation, energy use and CO2 emissions; assess the potential contribution of local policies in reducing global energy demand and the trade-offs between economic and environmental objectives at the local scale; discuss complementary and mutually reinforcing policies such as the combination of compact growth policies with those that improve mass transit linkages; and evaluate a number of tools, including the "greening" of existing fiscal policies, financing arrangements to combat climate change at the local level, and green innovation and jobs programmes. One of the main messages of this report is that urban policies (e.g. densification or congestion charges) can complement global climate policies (e.g. a carbon tax) by reducing global energy demand, CO2 emissions and the overall abatement costs of reducing carbon emissions. To inform the groundswell of local climate change action planning, the report highlights best practices principally from OECD member countries but also from certain non-member countries.
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Corporate Authors:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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Paris, France 75775 Paris Cedex 16 -
Authors:
- Kamal-Chauoi, L (
- Robert, A (
- Publication Date: 2009
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 172p
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- Issue Number: 2
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air quality management; City planning; Climate change; Environment; Sustainable transportation; Transportation planning
- Uncontrolled Terms: Planning and Environment
- ATRI Terms: Climate change; Emissions control; Environment; Sustainable transport; Town planning; Transport planning
- Subject Areas: Environment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01381891
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Aug 22 2012 12:52PM