Transition to a low-carbon city： lessons learned from Suzhou in China
Transition to a low-carbon city： lessons learned from Suzhou in China作者机构：School of EnvironmentTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China Environmental Policy GroupWageningen UniversityWageningen 6706 KNthe Netherlands The Administrative Centre for China's Agenda 21Beijing 100038China
出 版 物：《Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering》 (环境科学与工程前沿（英文）)
年 卷 期：2012年第6卷第3期
页 面：373-386页
核心收录：
学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 02[经济学] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 020105[经济学-世界经济] 08[工学] 081303[工学-城市规划与设计(含：风景园林规划与设计）] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 083302[工学-城乡规划与设计]
基 金：American Energy Foundation Tsinghua University US Energy Foundation City, University of London, City
主 题：low-carbon city economic restructuring tech- nology upgrading
摘 要：Climate change has become one of the most serious challenges facing humanity; developing a low- carbon economy provides new opportunities for addressing this issue. Building a low-carbon city has been pursued by people with a high degree of enthusiasm in China. Different from actions at the national level and distinct from practices of developed countries, low-carbon development in Chinese cities should be placed on diverse concerns. Taking Suzhou of Jiangsu Province of China as a case city, this paper adopts a scenario analysis approach to explore strategic focal points in the transition to a low- carbon city. Within this transition, we mainly focus on the different contributions from two factors-economic restruc- turing and technological upgrading. Scenario analysis results show that 1） in the case of no breakthrough technologies, it is difficult to achieve absolute emission reductions; 2） technologies involved in optimizing energy structure and improving energy efficiency of basic service sectors should be highly emphasized in local planning; 3） in comparison with technological upgrading, economic structural adjustment could be a stronger contributor to mitigation, which is one of the main differences from developed countries. However, the key issue of economic restructuring is to promote the growth of emerging low- carbon industries, which requires not only a strategic choice of new industries but also an introduction of advanced low-carbon technologies. It is also found that establishing a local carbon emissions accounting system is a prerequisite and the first priority for realizing a low-carbon transition and government capacity buildings should be strengthened accordingly.
维普期刊数据库