Advancing Climate Ambition: How City-Scale Actions Can Contribute to Global Climate Goals

The document assesses how city-level interventions in sectors like urban planning and public transport can significantly lower global GHG emissions. It finds that urban actions could reduce emissions by 3.7 Gt CO2e by 2030 and 8.0 Gt CO2e by 2050, primarily through residential building energy efficiency and a shift to efficient public transport. The authors suggest these actions could increase the ambition of national climate pledges, provided there is sufficient national policy support and new financing.

• Urban actions have the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 3.7 Gt CO2e by 2030 and 8.0 Gt CO2e by 2050 relative to a reference scenario.
• The most significant emission reductions are expected to come from enhancing the energy efficiency of residential buildings and transitioning personal urban mobility toward efficient public transport.
• Because many of the identified urban abatement actions are not currently part of national pledges, implementing them could help countries increase the ambition of their existing or future climate commitments.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2014). Advancing Climate Ambition: How City-Scale Actions Can Contribute to Global Climate Goals. https://www.sei.org/publications/advancing-climate-ambition-how-city-scale-actions-can-contribute-to-global-climate-goals/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Advancing Climate Ambition: How City-Scale Actions Can Contribute to Global Climate Goals. 2014. https://www.sei.org/publications/advancing-climate-ambition-how-city-scale-actions-can-contribute-to-global-climate-goals/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2014advancing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Advancing Climate Ambition: How City-Scale Actions Can Contribute to Global Climate Goals}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2014}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/advancing-climate-ambition-how-city-scale-actions-can-contribute-to-global-climate-goals/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }